[ noun ] (linguistics) the scientific study of language
Used in print(H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)
Even beginning students in linguistics are made familiar with an appreciable variety of consonant_systems , both in their general outlines and in many specific details .
But it is worth pondering that very little has been published on any phase of field techniques in linguistics .
science dialect_geography lexicology sociolinguistics etymology computational_linguistics pragmatics synchronic_linguistics structuralism neurolinguistics semantics historical_linguistics cognitive_science form root tone rule prepositional Old late inflected phoneme early animate middle inanimate segmental phylum aphaeresis aspectual vocative sonant complementary_distribution standard surd cognate nonstandard acceptable unacceptable bad etymologize cacuminal derivative suprasegmental autosemantic synsemantic New Modern preposition postposition polyphonic morphophoneme radical allophone sign participant_role homophonous topicalization linguistic_process ablative reduplicate topicalize uninflected voice analytic