Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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deep structure

Language; Linguistics

The abstract representation of the syntactic properties of a construction,i.e. The underlying level of structural relations between its different constituents ,such sa the relation between,the ...

surfacte structure

Language; Linguistics

The final stage in the syntactic derivation of a construction,which closely corresponds to the structural organization of a construction people actually produce and receive.

c-command

Language; Linguistics

One of the similarities,or of the more general features, in these two government relations,is technically called constituent command,c-command for short.

langue

Language; Linguistics

French word meaning the system or code which allows the realization of the individual messages, and as such is the object of linguistics. It should be compared with parole, the messages themselves.

parole

Language; Linguistics

The actual phenomena or data of linguistics(utterances). It should be compared with langue, the system of language itself.

articulatory phonetics

Language; Linguistics

The study of production of speech sounds.

coarticulation

Language; Linguistics

A kind of phonetic process in which simultaneous or overlapping articulations are involved. Coarticulation can be further divided into anticipatory coarticulation and perseverative coarticulation.