Linguistics MOC

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Not to be confused with the Language MOC. Linguistics deal with how languages are developed, structured, and used as opposed to how to speak a specific language.

Technical notes:

• Linguistics Notes Meta

  Linguistics Notes Meta

  #linguistics About these notes Some personal notes on linguistics. Once again, feel free to read it but be skeptical since they...

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  • Introduction

    Linguistics - Introduction

    Refactored from Linguists simply focus on studying how languages are being used Or, if you like, the science of language When encountering...

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  • Features of Languages

    Linguistics - Features of Languages

    Refactored from #linguistics And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of...

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  • Languages and Language Families

    Linguistics - Languages and Language Families

    Refactored from When languages evolve, they interact with other languages just like how species evolve, so the categorisation of languages...

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  • Morphology

    Linguistics - Morphology

    Refactored from What a word means It can be defined as the meaning of a word that you find in the...

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  • Syntax

    Linguistics - Syntax

    Refactored from The syntax sets rules for how words relate to each other in a sentence Sentences are made of smaller...

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  • Semantics

    Linguistics - Semantics

    Refactored from #linguistics Types of semantic relationships: Synonyms and Antonyms Hyponym $\subset$ hypernym For example, the hyponym rouge is a subset of the hypernym...

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  • Pragmatics

    Linguistics - Pragmatics

    Refactored from Sometimes we don't say exactly what we mean, but other people are able to figure out what we...

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  • Phonetics

    Linguistics - Phonetics

    Refactored from Phonetics studies the sound of a language Linguistics use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to write down sounds precisely here's...

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  • Writing Systems

    Linguistics - Writing Systems

    Refactored from Aka orthography Some definitions graphemes are symbols glyphs are written symbols like letters diacritics are glyphs added to another more basic glyph...

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• Solving Linguistic Problems

  Solving Linguistic Problems

  #linguistics These notes are probably useful if you try to solve linguistic problems from the International Linguistics Olympiad or Alex...

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• Linguistically Interesting Phenomena

Miscellaneous:

• The “or” ambiguity

  The "or" ambiguity

  #english #linguistics The problem It happens that there are two types of or in spoken English since or can either be...

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• Linguistically Interesting Phenomena