Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Encoding idioms

Language; Linguistics

An example of an encoding idiom is wide awake . While idioms of this kind may be understood on first hearing: the adjective wide functions as a degree modifier, and while it is possible to work ...

Pertains to the body, especially species-specific physiology and anatomy. Physiology has to do with biological morphology, which is to say body parts and organization, such as having hands, arms and ...

Emergent grammar

Language; Linguistics

A view of grammar associated with Paul Hopper which adopts the usage-based thesis. According to Hopper, the grammar of a language is not most insightfully conceived as a fixed or stable system that ...

Encyclopaedic knowledge

Language; Linguistics

The structured body of nonlinguistic knowledge to which a linguistic unit such as a word potentially provides access. encyclopaedic knowledge is modelled in terms of a number of constructs including ...

Entrenchment

Language; Linguistics

The establishment of a linguistic unit as a cognitive pattern or routine in the mind of an individual language user. The greater the frequency of the linguistic unit in the language input the more ...

Empirical methods in cognitive linguistics (EMCL)

Language; Linguistics

A workshop series that promotes empirical investigation and methods in cognitive linguistics.

Intention-reading ability

Language; Linguistics

According to Michael Tomasello , one of two abilities essential to the uniquely human ability to acquire language. While the pattern-finding ability allows pre-linguistic infants to begin to ...