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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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Stem
Language; Linguistics
Any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added.
Inference in context
Language; Linguistics
Any conclusion drawn from a set of proposition, from something someone has said and so on. It includes things that, while not following logically, are implied in an ordinary sense, e.g. in a specific ...
Immediate assumption
Language; Linguistics
The reader is supposed to carry out the progresses required to understand each word and its relationship to previous words in the sentence as soon as that word in encountered.
Language production
Language; Linguistics
A goal-directed activity, in the sense that people speak and write in order to make friends, influence people, convey information and so on.
Frequency effect
Language; Linguistics
Describes the additional ease with which a word is accessed due to its more frequent usage in language.
Propositions
Language; Linguistics
Whatever is seen as expressed by a sentence which makes a statement. It is a property of propositions that they have truth values.
Language comprehension
Language; Linguistics
One of the three strands of psycholinguistic research, which studies the understanding of language.
