Linguistic Process
Of linguistics and human process.
A process involved in human language.
This concept's ID is @1~67707
Contains
- omission
Any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases.
- lexicalization
The process of making a word to express a concept.
- fusion
The merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words.
- derivation
(descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words...
- drift
A process of linguistic change over a period of time.
- infection
(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sou...
- agglutination
The building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning...
- assimilation
A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound.
- dissimilation
A linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like...
- syneresis
The contraction of two vowels into a diphthong.
- metathesis
A linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within...