Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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corpus planning

Language; Linguistics

Measures taken by official agencies to influence the structure of a language by changing its linguistic code and creating grammars and dictionaries.

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most ...

consonant

Language; Linguistics

a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are [p], pronounced with the lips; [t], pronounced with the front of the tongue; [k], ...

Simultaneous bilingualism

Language; Linguistics

Simultaneous bilingualism is a form of bilingualism that takes place when a child becomes bilingual by learning two languages from birth.Children who are regularly addressed in two spoken languages ...

Vowel harmony

Language; Linguistics

Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels that occurs in some languages. A vowel or vowels in a word must be members of the same subclass (thus "in ...

Semivowel

Language; Linguistics

In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel or glide, also known as a non-syllabic vocoid, is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as ...

Philology

Language; Linguistics

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics. Philology is more commonly defined as the study of ...