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  • ** The operations which make it possible for people to produce and understand speech. ...lev, but they only proposed it as a point of view, never demonstrated that it could actually work.
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  • "Language" is just a term of English. It may be interesting to take note of the fact that many of what English calls ...nguage is not only unobservable, it is not a physical object of any kind. It can be regarded as a very abstract object or as a logical construct, or as
    2 KB (313 words) - 19:14, 28 January 2018
  • ...in -''a'' it is feminine (e.g. ''lampa'' 'lamp'), and if it ends in -''o'' it is neuter (e.g. ''okno'' 'window'). Some languages only distinguish two gen
    2 KB (295 words) - 16:55, 21 August 2014
  • ...n 'spin', finally, as in 'cap', or followed by a consonant, as in 'print', it will not have this aspiration.
    1 KB (224 words) - 15:12, 3 August 2014
  • ...subject raising, (ii) is impossible, since the subject position taken by ''it'' is skipped in moving ''Vitesse'' to the subject position of ''seems''. (ii) *Vitesse seems [that it is certain [t to win]]
    970 bytes (136 words) - 08:06, 16 August 2014
  • '''Synonymy''' is a [[sense relation]]. It holds between two [[word]]s or [[phrase]]s with the same [[meaning]], like
    339 bytes (46 words) - 08:42, 16 August 2014
  • ...thway going through a field or a jungle, the more it gets used, the easier it is to use the next time.
    1 KB (234 words) - 06:13, 8 October 2017
  • ...[anomaly]] or that it is intelligible by native speakers of that language. It only refers to the compliance with underlying syntactic rules. Grammaticali
    976 bytes (139 words) - 17:43, 29 June 2014
  • ...social in-groups, breaking the English’s standart, while the aim of using it is the exchange of information within the group itself. Therefore, slang al ...year-old, means someone who’s very drunk, but in the twenty-first century, it means someone who’s under the influence of drugs (marijuana).
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  • '''Instrument''' is a [[semantic relation]]. It is used for an inanimate entity with the help of which a given action is ca
    238 bytes (38 words) - 20:09, 4 July 2014
  • ...s moved, it can optionally 'drag along' a larger [[NP]] or [[PP]] in which it is contained.
    1 KB (174 words) - 15:55, 5 March 2011
  • ...son having a disconnection between sound patterns and the production area. It is caused by damage to the arcuate fasciculus.
    275 bytes (42 words) - 19:17, 22 June 2014
  • ...It is the answer to the questions ‘who’ and ‘what’ in the clause. Thereby it says about whom the sentence is made. The subject agrees with the verb in n
    963 bytes (153 words) - 13:10, 13 May 2016
  • ...stics)|lexeme]] stands for just one thing, ruling out the possibility that it might have different senses in different contexts. ...an object that is an integral whole, even if closer examination would show it to be a relatively haphazard collection of diverse phenomena.
    1 KB (152 words) - 06:09, 8 October 2017
  • ...'' is a type of situation (or state of affairs) which is [[dynamic]], i.e. it is associated with (physical, temporal etc.) change. ...sive aspect denotes the continuation of an action and with accomplishments it refers to the “preparatory process leading towards the culmination of the
    1 KB (158 words) - 16:59, 18 July 2014
  • ...ion''' is a relation holding between a [[constituent]] and the clause that it forms part of.
    267 bytes (35 words) - 16:17, 27 July 2014
  • Global aphasia is aphasia which affects all language functions. It is caused by damage to all of the langauge processing components which are
    250 bytes (36 words) - 17:29, 29 June 2014
  • ...onstruction''' (omitting the subject, which Lamb does not consider part of it) is a [[construction (in neurocognitive linguistics)|construction]] that ca ...e", etc. Here, <MOVE> represents any action that can cause motion, and so it permits any verb that can be so construed, even "sneeze", to impart motion
    1 KB (158 words) - 02:09, 15 October 2017
  • Surface dyslexia is often the result of temporal lobe damage. It causes the subject to have to carefully sound out each word. This results i
    285 bytes (44 words) - 13:27, 25 July 2010
  • A [[speech sound]] is called '''voiceless''' if it is pronounced with open [[vocal folds]] so that air from the lungs can free
    274 bytes (38 words) - 19:37, 2 August 2014

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