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RELATED WORDS : computational linguistics department of linguistics descriptive linguistics diachronic linguistics historical linguistics linguistics department prescriptive linguistics structural linguistics synchronic linguistics

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Noun linguistics has 2 senses

• linguistics(n = noun.cognition) Array - the scientific study of language; Array
is a kind of science, scientific discipline
is a part of cognitive science
has particulars: computational linguistics, dialect geography, linguistic geography, etymology, diachronic linguistics, diachrony, historical linguistics, neurolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, sociolinguistics, structural linguistics, structuralism, synchronic linguistics, descriptive linguistics, prescriptive linguistics
Derived forms noun linguist₁, adjective linguistic₂

• linguistics(n = noun.cognition) philology - the humanistic study of language and literature; Array
is a kind of arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts
has particulars: dialectology, lexicology
Derived forms noun linguist₁, adjective linguistic₁

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linguistics

bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, etymology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, paleography, philology, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, semantics, sociolinguistics, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics

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linguistics

Language

N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.

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