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The scientific study of human language.
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etic
Language; Linguistics
A term in contrast with emic which originates from American linguist Pike’s distinction of phonetics and phonemics. Being etic means making far too many, as well as behaviourly inconsequential ...
emic
Language; Linguistics
A term in contrast with etic which originates from American linguist Pike’s distinction of phonetics and phonemics. An emic set of speech acts and events must be one that is validated as meaningful ...
synchronic
Language; Linguistics
A kind of description which takes a fixed instant(usually, but not necessarily the present) as its point of observation. Most grammar is of this kind.
prescriptive
Language; Linguistics
A kind of linguistic study in which things are prescribed how they ought to be, i.e. laying down rules for language use.
arbitrariness
Language; Linguistics
One design feature of human language, which refers to the face that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning.
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