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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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loanword
Language; Linguistics
A process in which both form and meaning are borrowed with only a slight adaptation, in some cases, to the phonological system of the new language that they enter.
loanblend
Language; Linguistics
A process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed.
acronym
Language; Linguistics
Is made up form the first letters of the name of an organization, which has a heavily modified headword.
loss
Language; Linguistics
The disappearance of the very sound as a morpheme in the phonological system.
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.
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