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  2. Category:Parts of speech - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Parts of speech" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. ... This page was last edited on 19 September 2021, ...

  3. Part of speech - Wikipedia

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    Pronoun (antōnymíā): a part of speech substitutable for a noun and marked for a person; Preposition (próthesis): a part of speech placed before other words in composition and in syntax; Adverb (epírrhēma): a part of speech without inflection, in modification of or in addition to a verb, adjective, clause, sentence, or other adverb

  4. Constituent (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The answer fragment test involves forming a question that contains a single wh-word (e.g. who, what, where, etc.). If the test string can then appear alone as the answer to such a question, then it is likely a constituent in the test sentence: [12] Drunks could put off the customers. (a) Who could put off the customers? - Drunks.

  5. Part-of-speech tagging - Wikipedia

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    Part-of-speech tagging is harder than just having a list of words and their parts of speech, because some words can represent more than one part of speech at different times, and because some parts of speech are complex. This is not rare—in natural languages (as opposed to many artificial languages), a large percentage of word-forms are ...

  6. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). [1] [2] In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of

  7. Speech production - Wikipedia

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    The production of spoken language involves three major levels of processing: conceptualization, formulation, and articulation. [1] [8] [9]The first is the processes of conceptualization or conceptual preparation, in which the intention to create speech links a desired concept to the particular spoken words to be expressed.

  8. Origin of speech - Wikipedia

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    The speech organs evolved in the first instance not for speech but for more basic bodily functions such as feeding and breathing. Nonhuman primates have broadly similar organs, but with different neural controls. [6] Non-human apes use their highly-flexible, maneuverable tongues for eating but not for vocalizing.

  9. Dragon Quest IX - Wikipedia

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    A battle in Dragon Quest IX: the player's party engages a monster, triggering a damage multiplier with consecutive attacks.. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies is a role-playing video game set in a fantasy world; the player takes on the role of a customizable player character of the Celestrian people trapped in the mortal world.