Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Narrator”s representation of thought

Language; Linguistics

The categories used by novelists to present the thoughts of their characters are exactly the same as those used to represent a speech e.g. He spent the day thinking.

Free indirect thought

Language; Linguistics

The categories used by novelists to represent the thoughts of their characters are exactly the same as those used to represent a speech,e.g. He was bound to be late.

Direct thought

Language; Linguistics

Categories used by novelists to represent the thoughts of their characters as exactly the same as those used to represent speech.

Computer literacy

Language; Linguistics

Those people who have sufficient knowledge and skill in the use of computers and computer software.

Computer linguistics

Language; Linguistics

A branch of applied linguistics dealing with computer processing of human language.

Voicing

Language; Linguistics

Pronouncing a sound (usually a vowel or a voiced consonant) by vibrating the vocal cords.

In phonetics, an allophone is one of several similar phones that belong to the same phoneme. A phone is a sound that has a definite shape as a sound wave, while a phoneme is a basic group of sounds ...