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  2. Dissemination - Wikipedia

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    These seeds are metaphors for voice or words: to spread voice, words, and opinion to an audience. In a scientific context, dissemination is defined as making projects results available to the scientific community, policy makers and industry – using scientific language prioritizing accuracy. [1]

  3. Word of mouth - Wikipedia

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    Another example of oral communication is oral history—the recording, preservation and interpretation of historical information, based on the personal experiences and opinions of the speaker. Oral history preservation is the field that deals with the care and upkeep of oral history materials collected by word of mouth, whatever format they may ...

  4. Language shift - Wikipedia

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    Due to language shift, ethnographic borders of Lithuanian language from the Middle Ages to the late 1930s shrank sharply to the north and west from the territory what is now Grodno oblast in Belarus, giving way to the spreading Polish and Belarusian languages, while in Prussian Lithuania out of 10 administrative units with prevailing Lithuanian ...

  5. Distinctive feature - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a distinctive feature is the most basic unit of phonological structure that distinguishes one sound from another within a language. For example, the feature [+voice] distinguishes the two bilabial plosives: [p] and [b] (i.e., it makes the two plosives distinct from one another). There are many different ways of defining and ...

  6. Spoken language - Wikipedia

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    Vocal language are traditionally taught to them in the same way that written language must be taught to hearing children. (See oralism.) [6] [7] Teachers give particular emphasis on spoken language with children who speak a different primary language outside of the school. For the child it is considered important, socially and educationally, to ...

  7. Language change - Wikipedia

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    After a word enters a language, its meaning can change as through a shift in the valence of its connotations. As an example, when "villain" entered English it meant 'peasant' or 'farmhand', but acquired the connotation 'low-born' or 'scoundrel', and today only the negative use survives. Thus 'villain' has undergone pejoration.

  8. Variation (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Variation is a characteristic of language: there is more than one way of saying the same thing in a given language. Variation can exist in domains such as pronunciation (e.g., more than one way of pronouncing the same phoneme or the same word), lexicon (e.g., multiple words with the same meaning), grammar (e.g., different syntactic constructions expressing the same grammatical function), and ...

  9. Glottis - Wikipedia

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    This sound is produced by keeping the vocal folds spread somewhat, resulting in non-turbulent airflow through the glottis. [4] In many accents of English the glottal stop (made by pressing the folds together) is used as a variant allophone of the phoneme /t/ (and in some dialects, occasionally of /k/ and /p/ ); in some languages, this sound is ...