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- P600 (neuroscience)Peak in electrical brain activity
- Pablo Xuan Manzano RodríguezPablo Xuan Manzano Rodríguez (L'Entregu, Spain, 22 July 1948) a scholar of Asturian langua
- Paderborn methodProposed method for teaching foreign languages,
- Pak t'ongsaOld Korean textbook of colloquial northern Chinese
- Palatal consonantConsonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the roof of the mouth
- Palato-alveolar consonantIn phonetics, palato-alveolar or palatoalveolar consonants are postalveolar consonants, ne
- PalindromeSequence that reads the same forwards and backwards
- Pamela FaberPamela Faber Benítez (born 1950) is an American/Spanish linguist. She has held the Chair o
- Pandanus languageSpecial language used in Papua New Guinea
- Paolo Fabbri (semiotician)Paolo Fabbri (17 April 1939 – 2 June 2020) was an Italian semiotician.
- ParalanguageCommunication of additional meaning, nuance, or emotion in speech
- ParemiographyStudy of the collection and writing of proverbs
- Parenthetical referencingCitation system
- ParonymSimilar-sounding word with different meaning
- Part of speechCategory of words based on shared grammatical properties in a clause
- ParticipleVerb form modifying a noun or noun phrase
- PartitiveGrammatical case
- Passive voiceGrammatical construction
- Passive-aggressive behaviorIndirect resistance to the demands of others
- Past tenseGrammatical tense
- Pathfinder (library science)A pathfinder is a bibliography created to help begin research in a particular topic or sub
- Paul GriceBritish philosopher of language (1913–1988)
- Paul SmolenskyAmerican linguist
- Pearl in the PalmChinese-Tangut glossary
- Pegon scriptJavanese-Arabic script
- Penelope EckertAmerican sociolinguist (born 1942)
- Peninsular SpanishSet of varieties of Spanish language
- Pennsylvania Dutch EnglishDialect of English
- Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakersJapanese speakers' perception of English consonants
- Perfect (grammar)Verb form focusing on the result of a past event
- Perfective aspectGrammatical aspect which present actions as having no internal composition
- PeriphrasisUsage of function words instead of affixes
- Persian grammarGrammar of the Persian language
- Personal pronounPronoun that is associated with a particular grammatical person
- Personal pronouns in EnglishClosed lexical category of the English language
- PertensivePertensive marking is to head-marking languages what possessive marking is to dependent-ma
- Peruvian SpanishVariety of Spanish language
- Peter AuerPeter Auer (born 1954) is a German linguist and professor emeritus of Germanic linguistics
- Pharyngeal branch of vagus nerveThe pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve is the principal motor nerve of the pharynx. It r
- Phi featuresConcept in pronoun-noun agreement
- Philadelphia EnglishVariety or dialect of American English
- Philipp KoehnPhilipp Koehn (born 1 August 1971 in Erlangen, West Germany) is a computer scientist and r
- Philippine SpanishVariety of Spanish language
- PhilologyStudy of language in historical sources
- Philology and Middle-earthInfluence on J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy
- Philosophy of linguisticsThe philosophy of linguistics is the philosophy of science applied to linguistics. It is c
- Phone (phonetics)Distinct speech sound or gesture
- Phonemic awarenessSubset of phonological awareness
- Phonemic contrastPhonetic differences that make meaning distinct in a given language
- Phonemic restoration effectPhonemic restoration effect is a perceptual phenomenon where under certain conditions, sou
- Phonetic ExtensionsPhonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters used in the Uralic P
- Phonetic Extensions SupplementPhonetic Extensions Supplement is a Unicode block containing characters for specialized an
- Phonetic spaceRange of sounds in human language
- Phonetic symbols in UnicodeUnicode supports several phonetic scripts and notation systems through its existing script
- Phonetic transcriptionVisual representation of speech sounds
- Phono-semantic matchingType of multi-source neologism
- Phonological changePhenomenon in phonology
- Phonological developmentAcquisition of language skills during childhood
- Phonological history of ScotsThis is a presentation of the phonological history of the Scots language.
- Phonological ruleConcept in linguistics
- PhonotacticsSounds allowed in a language (phonetics)
- Phrase structure rulesRewrite rule used to describe a given language's syntax
- PhrasemePhrase with some components fixed
- PhraseologyIn linguistics, phraseology is the study of set or fixed expressions, such as idioms, phra
- PidginSimplified language
- Pied-pipingPhenomenon of syntax
- Pitch accent (intonation)Pitch accent is a term used in autosegmental-metrical theory for local intonational featur
- Pitch-accent languageLanguage that uses pitch changes for accent
- Place of articulationPlace in the mouth consonants are articulated
- Placeholder nameName substituted for an unknown name
- Plains Indian Sign LanguageEndangered language of the Plains peoples
- PleonasmRedundancy in linguistic expression
- PlosiveConsonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases
- PluperfectGrammatical tense
- PluractionalityGrammatical aspect denoting that a verb's action or participants is/are plural
- PluralGrammatical number
- Plurale tantumNoun that appears only in the plural form
- Pluricentric languageLanguage with several interacting codified standard versions
- PlurilingualismAbility to switch between languages
- PoeticsTheory of literary forms and discourse
- Poetry analysisPoetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural se
- Polarity itemLexical item associated with affirmation or negation
- PolemicContentious rhetoric
- Polish phonologySounds and pronunciation of the Polish language
- Political linguisticsPolitical linguistics is the study of the relations between language and politics. It argu
- Politics of LatviaThe politics of Latvia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democr
- Polypersonal agreementGrammatical feature of certain languages
- PolysemyCapacity for a sign to have multiple related meanings
- Polysynthetic languageHighly inflected language with many morphemes per word
- Porome languagePorome, also known as Kibiri, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea.
- PortmanteauWord consisting of two words
- PortuñolPortuñol (Spanish spelling) or Portunhol (Portuguese spelling) () is a portmanteau of the
- Possession (linguistics)Aspect of linguistics representing subordinate relationships between things
- PossessiveGrammatical use indicating possession
- Possessive affixAffix attached to a noun for possessive
- Possessive determinerDeterminer which modifies a noun by attributing possession
- Postalveolar consonantConsonants articulated with the tongue behind the alveolar ridge
- PosteditingTranslation process after machine-generation
- Poverty of the stimulusLinguistic argument for innate language-specific biases
- Prague linguistic circleLanguage and literature society
- Pre-classical ArabicPre-classical Arabic is the cover term for all varieties of Arabic spoken in the Arabian P
- Pre-stopped consonantType of complex consonant combining plosive with non-plosive elements
- Predicate (grammar)Linguistic term
- Predicative expressionPart of a clause predicate
- PrefixAffix which is placed before the stem of a word
- Present perfectGrammatical combination of the present tense and the perfect aspect
- Present tenseGrammatical tense
- Prestige (sociolinguistics)Level of respect towards a language variety in a speech community
- PresuppositionAssumed context surrounding an utterance
- PreteriteGrammatical tense denoting a past event
- Principle of compositionalityPrinciple in linguistics about meaning
- Principles and parametersGenerative linguistics framework
- PRO (linguistics)Empty category occupying the subject position in non-finite clauses
- Pro-formIn linguistics, a pro-form is a type of function word or expression (linguistics) that sta
- Pro-verbWord that replaces a verb
- Productivity (linguistics)Current acceptance level of a word formation process
- Pronouns in EnglishWords in English that substitute for a noun or noun phrase
- PronunciationWay a word or a language is spoken
- Pronunciation assessmentUse of speech recognition to verify pronunciation
- Pronunciation of English /r/The pronunciation of the phoneme in the English language has many variations in different
- ProofreadingDetection of errors in transcribed text
- Prophetic perfect tenseLiterary technique used in religious texts
- Propositional attitudeConcept in epistemology
- Proto-Albanian languageReconstructed ancestor of the Albanian languages
- Proto-Indo-European accentPitch accent system of the proto-Indo-European language
- Proto-Indo-European languageAncestor of the Indo-European languages
- Proto-Indo-European phonologyReconstructed sound system of a proto-language
- Proto-languageCommon ancestor of a language family
- Proto-Romance languageReconstructed ancestor of the Romance languages
- Proto-Siouan languageCommon ancestor of the Siouan languages
- Prototype theoryTheory of categorization in psychology
- Pseudo-anglicismNon-English word that appears to be English
- PseudogappingEllipsis omitting most of a verb phrase