These are the technical linguistic terms you should learn from this class. This list will grow as the class goes on.

• Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Grammar/Linguistics
• Performance vs. Competence

• Phonetics
• Consonant
• Vowel
• Articulators
• Stop
• Fricative
• Affricate

• Phoneme
• Allophone

• Morpheme
• Allomorph
• Open vs. closed class morpheme/word
• Function vs. content morpheme/word
• Inflectional vs. Derivational
• Analytic Language
• Synthetic Language
• Agglutinating Language

• Hyponym/hypernym
• Graded/complementary/relational antonym
• Referent (reference)

• Maxim of quality
• Maxim of relation/relevance
• Maxim of quantity

• Synchronic
• Diachronic