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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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Concord
Language; Linguistics
Also known as agreement,is the requirement that the forms of two or more words in a syntactic relationship should agree with each other in terms of some categories.
C-command
Language; Linguistics
One of the similarities,or of the more general features, in these two government relations,is technically called constituent command,c-command for short.
Category
Language; Linguistics
Parts of speech and function,such as the classification of words in terms of parts of speech,the identification of terms of parts of speech,the identification of functions of words in term of ...
Exocentric construction
Language; Linguistics
A construction whose distribution is not functionally equivalent to any to any of its constituents.
Relational opposites
Language; Linguistics
Converse antonymy in reciprocal social roles, kinship relations, temporal and spatial relations. There are always two entities involved. One presupposes the other. The shorter, better;worse. Etc are ...
Context effect
Language; Linguistics
This effect help people recognise a word more readily when the receding words provide an appropriate context for it.
Cohort theory
Language; Linguistics
Theory of the perception of spoken words proposed in the mid-1980s. It assumes a "recognition lexicon" in which each word is represented by a full and independent "recognition element". When the ...
