| NOUN | process | linguistic process | a process involved in human language |
|---|---|---|---|
| cognition | linguistic process, language | the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication |
| Meaning | A process involved in human language. | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| Narrower | agglutination | The building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning / meaning in the process of combining |
| assimilation | A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound | |
| derivation | (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation | |
| dissimilation | A linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other | |
| drift | A process of linguistic change over a period of time | |
| fusion | The merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words | |
| infection | (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound | |
| lexicalization, lexicalisation | The process of making a word to express a concept | |
| metathesis | A linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence | |
| omission, deletion | Any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases | |
| syneresis, synaeresis | The contraction of two vowels into a diphthong | |
| Broader | human process | A process in which human beings are involved |
| Spanish | proceso lingüístico | |
| Catalan | procés lingüístic | |
| Meaning | The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | language | |
| Narrower | reading | The cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message |
| Broader | higher cognitive process | cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use |
| Spanish | proceso lingüístico | |
| Catalan | procés lingüístic | |
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