Meaning | A process involved in human language. |
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Category | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
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Narrower | agglutination | The building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning / meaning in the process of combining |
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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 |
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Spanish | proceso lingüístico |
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Catalan | procés lingüístic |
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