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  2. Linguistic monogenesis and polygenesis - Wikipedia

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    According to monogenesis, human language arose only once in a single community, and all current languages come from the first original tongue. On the other hand, according to polygenesis, human languages came into being in several communities independently, and current tongues derived from different sources. [1]

  3. Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] The strong hypothesis of linguistic relativity, now referred to as linguistic determinism, is that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and restrict cognitive categories. This was a claim by some earlier linguists pre-World War II; [4] since then it has fallen out of acceptance by contemporary linguists.

  4. Languages of science - Wikipedia

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    The gradual disuse of Latin opened an uneasy transition period as more and more works were only accessible in local languages. Many national European languages held the potential to become a language of science within a specific research field: some scholars "took measures to learn Swedish so they could follow the work of [the Swedish chemist] Bergman and his compatriots."

  5. Airstream mechanism - Wikipedia

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    The word lingual is derived from Latin lingua, which means tongue. To produce a lingual ingressive airstream, first close the vocal tract at two places: at the back of the tongue, as in a velar or uvular stop, and simultaneously with the front of the tongue or the lips, as in a coronal or bilabial stop. These holds may be voiceless, voiced, or ...

  6. Proto-Human language - Wikipedia

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    The Proto-Human language, also known as Proto-Sapiens or Proto-World, is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all human languages. [ 1 ] The concept is speculative and not amenable to analysis in historical linguistics .

  7. Tongue - Wikipedia

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    The word tongue derives from the Old English tunge, which comes from Proto-Germanic *tungōn. [3] It has cognates in other Germanic languages —for example tonge in West Frisian , tong in Dutch and Afrikaans , Zunge in German , tunge in Danish and Norwegian , and tunga in Icelandic , Faroese and Swedish .

  8. 40 of the Hardest Tongue Twisters in the English Language - AOL

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    And if you want to ease into these hard tongue twisters, try these tongue twisters for kids first. The post 40 of the Hardest Tongue Twisters in the English Language appeared first on Reader's Digest.

  9. Articulatory phonetics - Wikipedia

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    What the above equations express is that given an initial pressure P 1 and volume V 1 at time 1 the product of these two values will be equal to the product of the pressure P 2 and volume V 2 at a later time 2. This means that if there is an increase in the volume of cavity, there will be a corresponding decrease in pressure of that same cavity ...