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linguist
  • n  a specialist in linguistics
  • n  a person who speaks more than one language
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linguistic atlas
  • n  an atlas showing the distribution of distinctive linguistic features
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linguistic communication
  • n  a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
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linguistic competence
  • n  (linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance)
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linguistic context
  • n  discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation
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linguistic geography
  • n  the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features
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linguistic performance
  • n  (linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence)
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linguistic process
  • n  a process involved in human language
  • n  the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
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