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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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blog
Language; Linguistics
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as ...
blogroll
Language; Linguistics
A blogroll is a collection of links to other weblogs. When present, blogrolls are often found on the front page sidebar of most weblogs. Various weblog authors have different criteria for including ...
phonemic transcription
Language; Linguistics
A broad transcription that transcribes the speech sounds that (normally) have to occur in standard pronunciation (RP or GenAm). Phonemic transcriptions have to be written in slashes / /.
compounding
Language; Linguistics
A compound is a word (lexeme) that consists of more than one free morpheme. An endocentric compound consists of a head, i.e. the categorical part that contains the basic meaning of the whole ...
definition
Language; Linguistics
A definition is a form of words which states the meaning of a term. This may either be the meaning which it bears in general use (a descriptive definition), or that which the speaker intends to ...
recursive definition
Language; Linguistics
A definition that refers to itself and thus defines an infinite set of things.
