linguistic process
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1. the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | higher cognitive process, |
| definition | : | cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | reading, |
| definition | : | the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message (noun.cognition) |
2. a process involved in human language (noun.process)
| hypernym | : | human process, |
| definition | : | a process in which human beings are involved (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | agglutination, |
| definition | : | the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | assimilation, |
| definition | : | a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | derivation, |
| definition | : | (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | dissimilation, |
| definition | : | a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | drift, |
| definition | : | a process of linguistic change over a period of time (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | fusion, |
| definition | : | the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | infection, |
| definition | : | (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | metathesis, |
| definition | : | a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | deletion, omission, |
| definition | : | any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | synaeresis, syneresis, |
| definition | : | the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong (noun.process) |
| domain category | : | linguistics, |
| definition | : | the scientific study of language (noun.cognition) |
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