| NOUN | cognition | prescriptive linguistics | an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used |
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| Meaning | An account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the 'correct' phonology and morphology / morphology and syntax / syntax and semantics. | |
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| Broader | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| Opposite | descriptive linguistics | A description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology / morphology and syntax / syntax and semantics without value judgments |
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