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The scientific study of human language.
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Pattern-finding ability
Language; Linguistics
One of two general cognitive skills that enables humans to acquire language. This ability allows humans to recognise patterns and perform 'statistical' analysis over sequences of perceptual input, ...
Perspectival system
Language; Linguistics
One of the four schematic systems which form part of the conceptual structuring system. The perspectival system establishes a viewpoint from which participants and scenes are viewed and involves four ...
Plexity
Language; Linguistics
One of the schematic categories in the configurational system. Plexity relates to whether a quantity of time or space consists of one (uniplex) or more than one (multiplex) equivalent elements. When ...
Perception
Language; Linguistics
Involves human sensory (or sense-perceptory) systems and the brain in order to form representations known as percepts. Perception consists of three stages: (1) sensation; (2) perceptual organization; ...
Perceptual meaning analysis
Language; Linguistics
The mechanism whereby perceptual stimuli are redescribed from perceptual arrays into rudimentary representations which support more complex concepts. The term was coined by developmental psychologist ...
Pattern of distribution
Language; Linguistics
One of the schematic categories in the configurational system. Pattern of distribution relates to how matter is distributed through space, or how action is distributed through time. This category is ...
Perspective
Language; Linguistics
One of the three parameters of focal adjustment. Relates to the way in which a scene is viewed, including the relative prominence of its participants. The case of an active and passive pair of ...
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