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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) and sometimes ...

Domain: Language; Category: Linguistics Collected Term

In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition is the process of word formation that creates ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning Collected Term

A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's notion that words should be defined using ...

Domain: Language; Category: Dictionaries Collected Term

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics. Philology is more commonly defined as the study of ...

Domain: Language; Category: Linguistics Collected Term

In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel or glide, also known as a non-syllabic vocoid, is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as ...

Domain: Language; Category: Linguistics Collected Term

Simultaneous bilingualism is a form of bilingualism that takes place when a child becomes bilingual by learning two languages from birth.Children who are regularly addressed in two spoken languages ...

Domain: Language; Category: Linguistics Collected Term

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most ...

Domain: Language; Category: Linguistics

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