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  2. Language (Bloomfield book) - Wikipedia

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    Language is a complete revision, indeed a new writing, of Bloomfield's earlier book An Introduction to the Study of Language which had been published in 1914.Language became the foundation of a movement that later came to be known as structural linguistics and Bloomfield became a pioneer in general linguistics.

  3. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    Xerox, an online language identifier, 47 languages supported; Language Guesser, a statistical language identifier, 74 languages recognized; NTextCat - free Language Identification API for .NET (C#): 280+ languages available out of the box. Recognizes language and encoding (UTF-8, Windows-1252, Big5, etc.) of text. Mono compatible.

  4. Language identification - Wikipedia

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    These models can be based on characters (Cavnar and Trenkle) or encoded bytes (Dunning); in the latter, language identification and character encoding detection are integrated. Then, for any piece of text needing to be identified, a similar model is made, and that model is compared to each stored language model.

  5. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...

  6. Hockett's design features - Wikipedia

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    When using language, humans can make false or meaningless statements. This is an important distinction made of human communication, i.e. language as compared to animal communication. While animal communication can display a few other design features as proposed by Hockett, animal communication is unable to lie or make up something that does not ...

  7. Native-language identification - Wikipedia

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    Native-language identification (NLI) is the task of determining an author's native language (L1) based only on their writings in a second language (L2). [1] NLI works through identifying language-usage patterns that are common to specific L1 groups and then applying this knowledge to predict the native language of previously unseen texts.

  8. The Sounds of the World's Languages - Wikipedia

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    The Sounds of the World's Languages, sometimes abbreviated SOWL, [1] is a 1996 book by Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson which documents a global survey of the sound patterns of natural languages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Drawing from the authors' own fieldwork and experiments as well as existing literature, it provides an articulatory and acoustic ...

  9. Undeciphered writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Linear A and Cretan hieroglyphs are scripts from an unknown language, one possibility being a yet to be deciphered Minoan language. [1] Several words have been decoded from the scripts, but no definite conclusions on the meanings of the words have been made. Phaistos Disc, c. 2000 BC. Linear A, c. 1800 BC – 1450 BC, partially deciphered ...