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  2. Distinctive feature - Wikipedia

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    Distinctive features have also been used to distinguish proverbs from other types of language such as slogans, clichés, and aphorisms. [10] Analogous feature systems are also used throughout Natural Language Processing (NLP). For example, part-of-speech tagging divides words into categories. These include "major" categories such as Noun vs ...

  3. Technical definition - Wikipedia

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    For example, the iliac crest from medical terminology is the top ridge of the hip bone (see ). ... distinguishing features: semitone interval pattern 2-2-1-2-2-2-1;

  4. Malapropism - Wikipedia

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    2 Distinguishing features. 3 Examples from fiction. 4 Real-life examples. 5 See also. ... An example is the statement attributed to baseball player Yogi Berra, ...

  5. Feature (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A unique combination of features defines a phoneme. Examples of phonemic or distinctive features are: [+/- voice], [+/- ATR] (binary features) and [ CORONAL] (a unary feature; also a place feature). Surface representations can be expressed as the result of rules acting on the features of the underlying representation. These rules are formulated ...

  6. Hockett's design features - Wikipedia

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    While primate communication utilizes the first 9 features, the final 4 features (displacement, productivity, cultural transmission, and duality) are reserved for humans. [citation needed] Hockett later added prevarication, reflexiveness, and learnability to the list as uniquely human characteristics. He asserted that even the most basic human ...

  7. Cognitive categorization - Wikipedia

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    Categorization is a type of cognition involving conceptual differentiation between characteristics of conscious experience, such as objects, events, or ideas.It involves the abstraction and differentiation of aspects of experience by sorting and distinguishing between groupings, through classification or typification [1] [2] on the basis of traits, features, similarities or other criteria that ...

  8. Isogloss - Wikipedia

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    For example, the front-rounding of /y/ cuts across France and Germany, while the /y/ is absent from Italian and Spanish words that are cognates with the /y/-containing French words. One of the best-known isoglosses is the centum-satem isogloss. Similar to an isogloss, an isograph is a distinguishing feature

  9. Cnidaria - Wikipedia

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    Pacific sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens. Cnidaria (/ n ɪ ˈ d ɛər i ə, n aɪ-/ nih-DAIR-ee-ə, NY-) [4] is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species [5] of aquatic invertebrates found both in fresh water and marine environments (predominantly the latter), including jellyfish, hydroids, sea anemones, corals and some of the smallest marine parasites.