Linguistics

Richard B. (United States of America)
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  1. personally
    by means of one's own action or presence
  2. objective
    the goal intended to be attained
  3. nonsubjective
    undistorted by emotion or personal bias
  4. morphology
    the study of the structure of animals and plants
  5. syntax
    the study of the rules for forming admissible sentences
  6. semantics
    the study of language meaning
  7. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  8. paragraph
    one of several distinct subdivisions of a text
  9. uninflected
    not inflected
  10. towel
    a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth for drying or wiping
  11. glottal plosive
    a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis; as in the sudden onset of a vowel
  12. word structure
    the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
Created on Sat Dec 25 16:57:32 EST 2010 (updated Wed Dec 29 00:00:47 EST 2010)

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