Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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dissimilation

Language; Linguistics

The influence exercised. By one sound segment upon the articulation of another, so that the sounds become less alike,or different.

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.

concord

Language; Linguistics

Also known as agreement,is the requirement that the forms of two or more words in a syntactic relationship should agree with each other in terms of some categories.

paradigmatic relation

Language; Linguistics

A relation holding between elements replaceable with each other at a particular place in a structure,or between one element present and he others absent.

immediate constituent analysis

The analysis of a sentence in terms of its immediate constituents---word groups(or phrases),which are in turn analyzed into the immediate constituents of their own,and the process goes on until the ...