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it is the scientific study of language

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Linguistic

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tries to determine universal principles for studying language and to describe the general features of languages

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General or theoretical linguistics

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concentrates upon the differences between languages

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Contrastive Linguistic

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studies different languages looking for similar characteristics

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comparative linguistics

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analyses the development of language in time, registering the changes that have taken place in it.

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Historical linguistics

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is concerned with the application of linguistics theories and their findings in solving various language problem, mostly in the teaching of foreign languages, studying languages disorders, in translation, lexicography, and stylistics

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Applied linguistics

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studies the relationship between language and society

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Sociolinguistics

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a brach of linguistics which studies the relationship between linguistic behavior and mental processes.

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Psycholinguistics

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uses computer techniques and applies them in automatic translation and speech analysis using corpora for large-scale statistical investigation and computational processing of spoken and written text.

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Computational linguistics

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is concerned with the study of the acquisition of language by children, describing the stages and patterns of development and explaining the typical features and variations.

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Developmental linguistics

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known as the father of structuralism

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Ferdinand de Saussure

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is the study of languages from the viewpoint of their historical development

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Diachronic linguistic

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studies languages at a single point of time

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Synchronic linguistics

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a term used in linguistic referring to a theoretical approach to the analysis of language that describe linguistic items in term of structures

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Structuralism

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just like adjectives,_______ are also used to describe words, but the difference is that _____ describe adjectives, verbs, or another _____

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Adverb

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part of speech refers to words that are used to name persons, place, things, animals and etc.

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Noun

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the most important part of speech, for without a ____, a sentence would not exist.

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verb

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part of speech which functions as a replacement for noun

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pronoun

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part of speech used to describe noun or pronoun

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adjective

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part of speech refers to word which express emotions

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interjection

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part of speech basically refers to words that specify location or a location in time.

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Preposition

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part of speech which joins words, phrases, or clauses together.

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Conjuction

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study of the origin and history of word

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Etymology

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means the meaning and interpretation of symbols, signs, words, phrases, and sentences.

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Semantics

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is the brach of linguistics which studies the structure of words and types of their formation.

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Morphology

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Morphemes that can be used as a.single words

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free morphemes

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others cannot stand alone and have to be attached to another morpheme

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bound morpheme

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which studies inflections of a language

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inflection morphology

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which studies the types of word formation

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derivational morphology

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the basic unit in morphology. It is define as a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function.

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Morpheme

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a type of a word formation when the function of a word changes

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Conversion

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have root and one more affixes (prefixes and suffixes)

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Complex words

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the basic meaning conveyed by words it is also called denotive meaning which means dictionary meaning

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Conceptual meaning

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is also called connotative meaning which means what the words actually connote in different situations

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Associative meaning

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two or more words with very closely related meanings

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synonyms

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when two or more different forms have the same pronunciation, they described as _____

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homophones

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two or more words that often go together

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Collocation

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two forms with opposite meaning

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antonyms

39
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when the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another, the relationships described as ____

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hyponymy

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