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LINGUISTIC PROCESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
Example:
he didn't have the language to express his feelings
Synonyms:
language; linguistic process
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("linguistic process" is a kind of...):
higher cognitive process (cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "linguistic process"):
reading (the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A process involved in human language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("linguistic process" is a kind of...):
human process (a process in which human beings are involved)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "linguistic process"):
agglutination (the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining)
assimilation (a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound)
derivation ((descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation)
dissimilation (a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other)
drift (a process of linguistic change over a period of time)
fusion (the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words)
infection ((phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound)
lexicalisation; lexicalization (the process of making a word to express a concept)
metathesis (a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence)
deletion; omission (any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases)
synaeresis; syneresis (the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong)
