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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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secondary landmark
Language; Linguistics
In a profiled relationship when there are two landmarks, the secondary landmark is the participant which has least salience. For instance, in the following example: Max kicked ...
secondary reference object
Language; Linguistics
In addition to figure-ground organization, languages often allow more complex partitioning of spatial scenes. This involves segregating the ground into two reference objects in ...
selection
Language; Linguistics
One of the three parameters of focal adjustment. Selection determines which aspects of a scene are attended to and relates to the notion of a conceptual domain (1). For instance, ...
selective projection
Language; Linguistics
In an integration network, the idea that not all the structure present in the input spaces is projected to the blended spaces. It is only the information that is subject to ...
semantic coherence principle
Language; Linguistics
One of the two principles that facilitate fusion (1) in construction grammar (2). The semantic coherence principle states that participant roles are matched with argument roles ...
semantic frame
Language; Linguistics
A knowledge structure required in order to understand a particular word or related set of words. The semantic frame is central to the theory of frame semantics. To illustrate, ...
semantic network
Language; Linguistics
In cognitive lexical semantics, a linguistic unit such as a word is treated as being comprised of related senses or lexical concepts. The range of lexical concepts associated with ...
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