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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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Loss
Language; Linguistics
The disappearance of the very sound as a morpheme in the phonological system.
Folk etymology
Language; Linguistics
A change in form of a word or phrase,resulting from an incorrect popular nation of the origin or meaning of the term or from the influence of more familiar terms mistakenly taken to be analogous.
Back-formation
Language; Linguistics
An abnormal type of word-formation where a shorter word is derived by deleting an imagined affix from a long form already in the language.
Assimilation
Language; Linguistics
The change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound,which is more specifically called. "contact" or "contiguous" assimilation.
Dissimilation
Language; Linguistics
The influence exercised. By one sound segment upon the articulation of another, so that the sounds become less alike,or different.
Acronym
Language; Linguistics
Is made up form the first letters of the name of an organization, which has a heavily modified headword.
Loanblend
Language; Linguistics
A process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed.
