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Frequent abbreviations and initialisms
Giving a complete list of abbreviations which might be used in a linguistics
paper is completely impossible: new ones are being added all the time, sometimes
not surviving the paper in which they are presented. Thus the list given
in table 17.1 is selective. It is selective in two ways. First, the abbreviations
given here are considered common enough that writers might justifiably feel
that they can use the abbreviation without a gloss. Second, abbreviations which
are clipped forms of the original are not given here. It is assumed that the reader
stands a better chance of reconstructing ModEng ‘modern English’ than ME
‘Middle English’.
Table 17.1 Abbreviations and initialisms
AAVE African American Vernacular English
AP adjective phrase
ASL American Sign Language
ATR advanced tongue root
BEV Black English Vernacular
BNC British National Corpus
BSL British Sign Language
CA conversation analysis
CALL computer-assisted language learning
CDS child-directed speech
CF context-free
CP complementiser phrase
cps cycles per second
CS context-sensitive
CV consonant vowel
dB decibel