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  2. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    Language practise where the students are restricted in their choice of language, usually to a single answer, for example a gap fill. (see "Free practise" and "Guided practise") Creative construction hypothesis Hypothesis in language acquisition which states that learners gradually develop their own rule systems for language. Culture

  3. Language classification - Wikipedia

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    Languages are grouped by diachronic relatedness into language families. [2] In other words, languages are grouped based on how they were developed and evolved throughout history, with languages which descended from a common ancestor being grouped into the same language family.

  4. Classifier (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Examples with numerals have been given above in the Overview section. An example with a demonstrative is the phrase for "this person" — 这个人 zhè ge rén. The character 个 is a classifier, literally meaning "individual" or "single entity", so the entire phrase translates literally as "this individual person" or "this single person".

  5. Linguistic categories - Wikipedia

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    At as of February 2019, there are just over 100 treebanks of more than 70 languages available in the UD inventory. [9] The project's primary aim is to achieve cross-linguistic consistency of annotation. However, language-specific extensions are permitted for morphological features (individual languages or resources can introduce additional ...

  6. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    The six factors of an effective verbal communication. To each one corresponds a communication function (not displayed in this picture). [1] Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. [2] Each of the functions has an associated factor.

  7. Linguistic typology - Wikipedia

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    Languages with bound case markings for nouns, for example, tend to have more flexible word orders than languages where case is defined by position within a sentence or presence of a preposition. For example, in some languages with bound case markings for nouns, such as Language X, varying degrees of freedom in constituent order are observed.

  8. Rhetorical operations - Wikipedia

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    In other words, amplification allows you to call attention to, emphasize, and expand a word or idea to make sure the reader realizes its importance or centrality in the discussion." Harris provides examples of amplification: "In my hunger after ten days of rigorous dieting I saw visions of ice cream – mountains of creamy, luscious ice cream ...

  9. Chomsky hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    These languages are exactly all languages that can be decided by a finite-state automaton. Additionally, this family of formal languages can be obtained by regular expressions. Regular languages are commonly used to define search patterns and the lexical structure of programming languages.