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Aarts, B., 127–28, 143
abbreviations, 181–82
Academie Française, 34
acceptability, 11–12
acronyms, 181–82
active voice, 10–11
additive relationships, 107
adjacency pair, 88
adjective phrase, 116, 117, 120–21
adverb, 143–44 
adverb phrases, 127–30
adverbials, 143–46 
adversative relationships, 107–8
affixation, 154–56, 180 
affricates, 201
African American Vernacular English (AAVE), 15, 74–75
Afrikaans, 23
Afro-Asiatic, 23
age, and speech patterns, 72–73
agglutinative languages, 35
Aitchison, Jean, 13–14
Algic language family, 42
allomorphs, 205–8
allophones, 197, 205–8
alphabet, English vs. phonetic, 197–98
Altaic language family, 30
Altenburg, B., 215
altered replication, 40
alveolar flapping, 207
American Dialect Society, Words of the Year List, 180