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(grammar) having words derived by combining parts, each with a separate meaning
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(linguistics) Quality of being an allomorph.
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(linguistics) Grammatically ambiguous.
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(linguistics) A theory of syntactic linearization, proposing that hierarchical structure in natural language maps universally onto a particular surface linearization, namely specifier-head-complement branching order.
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A brand of language skills learning. During the teaching of the language all instruction is done in the target language.
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(linguistics) Of a basic unit of a writing system: having no specific meaning.
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(linguistics) The property of having one main stress per word.
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(phonology) Not affected, or affected only to a limited degree, by prosody.
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Pertaining to flection; serving to bend or vary, specifically, pertaining to the terminal variation of words; inflectional.
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(linguistics, obsolete) Involving idiosyncratic rules of spelling, rather than phonetic spelling.
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(linguistics, obsolete) Heteric spelling.
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(grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb, etc
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(linguistics) In linguistics, particularly Indo-European Studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- "water" (nominoaccusative *wódr; genitive *udnés; locative *udén) and *yékʷ-r/n- "liver" (nominoaccusative *yékʷr, genitive *ikʷnés). In Proto-Indo-European, heteroclitic stems tend to be noun stems with grammatically inanimate gender.
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A word whose sound is the same, but spelling and meaning differ from another’s.
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(linguistics) Not occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.
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(linguistics) A word having the same spelling as another, but a different pronunciation and meaning.
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Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap
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(literature) A text that is heterogeneous, for example in being composed of several different languages.
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Alternative spelling of homoiophone [A word similar — but not identical — in pronunciation with another; compare homophone.]
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Alternative spelling of homœophony [(chiefly of two or more words) Phonic similarity; the quality of being similar-sounding.]
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(linguistics) One of two or more etymologically and semantically unrelated words with the same orthographical form (spelling), or phonetic form (pronunciation); a homonym, homograph, or homophone.
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Being, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so).
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The state or condition of being homoglyphic; homoglyphy exists between homoglyphs as homography exists between homographs, and homonymy between homonyms.
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A word similar — but not identical — in pronunciation with another; compare homophone.
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(linguistics) A phoneme, morpheme, or word shared by two languages or dialects, via cognation or naturalization.
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(loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both), technically called a homophone (same sound, different spelling) or a homograph (same spelling, different sound), or if both are the same, a homonym.
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Any of a set of words that sound different, but look identical on a person's lips, so that they cannot be distinguished by lipreading.
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(semantics) A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
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(linguistics) Having the same sound; being homophones.
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Alternative form of homoiophone [A word similar — but not identical — in pronunciation with another; compare homophone.]
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(chiefly of two or more words) Phonic similarity; the quality of being similar-sounding.
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Involving the same morphemes.
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(linguistics) In the description of languages with a four-way distinction for demonstratives, refers to a demonstrative which indicates something near the addressee.
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With reference to monolingualism; utilising a single language.
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The ordering restrictions in place on the ordering of morphemes.
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(grammar) Retaining the accent; not enclitic; said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which are enclitic in other situations.
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(grammar) Being a compound word formed by parasynthesis, i.e. by adding several affixes simultaneously, without “intermediate” forms.
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(semantics) Having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning.
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(linguistics) Around the time that a person acquires language.
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(grammar) Consisting of multiple words, but behaving as a single part of speech.
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A word that is spelled the same as another, but which has a different pronunciation and meaning; homograph.
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(grammar, of languages) Characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of morphemes. Typically, the morphemes are bound.
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Alternative form of polysynthetic [(grammar, of languages) Characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of morphemes. Typically, the morphemes are bound.]
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Deafness contracted after acquiring a first language.
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(grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
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(linguistics) Occurring in the same morpheme; not separated by a morpheme boundary.
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(linguistics) A word or term made from two identical parts or syllables, such as bonbon or dada.
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