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  2. Structured communication - Wikipedia

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    Structured communication is a term used across a variety of disciplines to describe frameworks for interaction between individuals or machines. Although these frameworks are primarily designed to reduce ambiguity , increased efficiency is often cited as a secondary benefit.

  3. Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. [1] [2] [3] The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language, and analogous systems of sign languages), and pragmatics ...

  4. Context (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The influence of context parameters on language use or discourse is usually studied in terms of language variation, style or register (see Stylistics). The basic assumption here is that language users adapt the properties of their language use (such as intonation, lexical choice, syntax, and other aspects of formulation ) to the current ...

  5. Language - Wikipedia

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    An example of such a language is Turkish, where for example, the word evlerinizden, or "from your houses", consists of the morphemes, ev-ler-iniz-den with the meanings house-plural-your-from. The languages that rely on morphology to the greatest extent are traditionally called polysynthetic languages. They may express the equivalent of an ...

  6. Structural approach - Wikipedia

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    The structural approach makes use of the following features for teaching the language: Word order – Word order or the pattern of form is very important in Language for e.g.: a) Jo broke his toy b) The toy broke Jo sentence a) Jo broke his toy – makes proper sense. it shows the arrangement or pattern of words. The presence of function words:

  7. Formal language - Wikipedia

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    Structure of the syntactically well-formed, although thoroughly nonsensical, English sentence, "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" (historical example from Chomsky 1957) In logic , mathematics , computer science , and linguistics , a formal language consists of words whose letters are taken from an alphabet and are well-formed according to ...

  8. Grammar - Wikipedia

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    Differences in scale are important to this meaning: for example, English grammar could describe those rules followed by every one of the language's speakers. [2] At smaller scales, it may refer to rules shared by smaller groups of speakers. A description, study, or analysis of such rules may also be known as a grammar, or as a grammar book.

  9. Structural communication - Wikipedia

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    Structural communication was developed in the 1960s by John G. Bennett and his research team to simulate the structure and quality of a small group tutorial through automated means. It provides access to high level learning for many students without much supervision. A communication consists of both information and structure.