Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Language perception

Language; Linguistics

Language awareness of things through the physical senses, esp.sight.

Macroproposition

Language; Linguistics

General propositions used to form an overall macrostructure of the story.

International phonetic alphabet (IPA)

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists. It is intended to provide a standardized, accurate and unique way of representing the sounds of any ...

Morpheme

Language; Linguistics

In morpheme-based morphology, a morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning. In spoken language, morphemes are composed of phonemes, the smallest linguistically distinctive ...

Inflexion

Language; Linguistics

In grammar, inflexion or inflexion is the modification or marking of a word (or more precisely lexeme) to reflect grammatical (that is, relational) information, such as gender, tense, number or ...

Affix

Language; Linguistics

An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a base morpheme such as a root or to a stem, to form a word. Affixes may be derivational, like English -ness and pre-, or inflectional, like English plural ...

Complementary distribution

Language; Linguistics

The relation between two speech sounds that never occur in the same environment. Allophones of the same phoneme are usually in complementary distribution.