Stress (linguistics)In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or…View analysis →
Means of communicationMeans of communication or media are ways used by people to communicate and exchange information with each other as an information sender and a receiver. Diverse arrays of media…View analysis →
Polysynthetic languageIn linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages, formerly holophrastic languages, are highly synthetic languages, i.e., languages in which words are composed of many morphemes…View analysis →
Conceptual modelConceptual model is any model that is the direct output of a conceptualization or generalization process. Conceptual models are often abstractions of things in the real world…View analysis →
PhonotacticsPhonotactics (from Ancient Greek phōnḗ 'voice, sound' and taktikós 'having to do with arranging') is a branch of phonology that deals with restrictions in a language on the…View analysis →
RoskomnadzorThe Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, abbreviated as Roskomnadzor (RKN), is the Russian federal executive agency…View analysis →
NounIn grammar, a noun is a word that denotes a concrete or abstract entity, like living creatures, places, actions, events, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. To summarize…View analysis →
AllophoneIn phonology, an allophone (/ˈæləˌfoʊn/ ⓘ; from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos) 'other' and φωνή (phōnḗ) 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken sounds, or phones, used to…View analysis →
C Sharp syntaxThis article describes the syntax of the C# programming language. The features described are compatible with .NET Framework and Mono.View analysis →
Peter MansbridgePeter Mansbridge OC (born July 6, 1948) is an English-born Canadian retired news anchor. From 1988 to 2017, he was chief correspondent for CBC News and anchor of The National…View analysis →
CobrapostCobrapost is a non-profit Indian news website that was founded in 2005 by Aniruddha Bahal – the co-founder of Tehelka. It is particularly known for its undercover investigative…View analysis →
Language and genderResearch into the many possible relationships, intersections and tensions between language and gender is diverse. This field crosses disciplinary boundaries, and, as a bare…View analysis →
MarkednessIn linguistics and social sciences, markedness is the state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common. The typical form or meaning of a term is…View analysis →
Origin of speechThe origin of speech differs from the origin of language because language is not necessarily spoken; it could equally be written or signed. Speech is a fundamental aspect of…View analysis →
Pronunciation of English ⟨a⟩There are a variety of pronunciations in Modern English and in historical forms of the language for words spelled with the letter ⟨a⟩. Most of these go back to the low vowel (the…View analysis →
ApplauseApplause (Latin applaudere, to strike upon, clap) is primarily a form of ovation or praise expressed by the act of clapping, or striking the palms of the hands together…View analysis →
Language changeLanguage change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, over time. It is studied in several subfields of linguistics…View analysis →
Close readingIn literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. It emphasizes the particular over the general, paying precise…View analysis →
Word2vecWord2vec is a technique in natural language processing for obtaining vector representations of words. These vectors capture information about the meaning of the word based on the…View analysis →
Quotation marks in EnglishIn English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation…View analysis →
Beijing dialectThe Beijing dialect (simplified Chinese: 北京话; traditional Chinese: 北京話; pinyin: Běijīnghuà), also known as Pekingese and Beijingese, is the prestige dialect of Mandarin spoken in…View analysis →
Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic areaThe Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area is a sprachbund that includes languages from the Sino-Tibetan, Hmong–Mien (or Miao–Yao), Kra–Dai, Austronesian and Austroasiatic…View analysis →
Media eventA media event, also known as a pseudo-event, is an event, activity, or experience conducted for the purpose of creating media publicity. It may also be any event that is covered…View analysis →
NasalizationIn phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation in British English) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the…View analysis →
Manually coded languageManually coded languages are a family of gestural communication methods which include gestural spelling as well as constructed languages which directly interpolate the grammar…View analysis →
Icelandic grammarIcelandic grammar is the set of structural rules that describe the use of the Icelandic language.View analysis →
Dependency grammarDependency grammar (DG) is a class of modern grammatical theories that are all based on the dependency relation (as opposed to the constituency relation of phrase structure) and…View analysis →
Media imperialismMedia imperialism is an area in the international political economy of communications research tradition that focuses on how "all Empires, in territorial or nonterritorial forms…View analysis →
MiaohuiMiaohui (simplified Chinese: 庙会; traditional Chinese: 廟會; lit. 'temple gatherings'; trans. "temple fairs"), also called yíngshén sàihuì (迎神赛会; 迎神賽會; "collective rituals to greet…View analysis →
Latin indirect speechIndirect speech, also known as reported speech, indirect discourse (US), or ōrātiō oblīqua (/əˈreɪʃɪoʊ əˈblaɪkwə/ or /oʊˈrɑːtɪoʊ ɒˈbliːkwə/), is the practice, common in all Latin…View analysis →
FemmeFemme (/fɛm/pronunciationⓘ; French: , literally meaning 'woman') is a term traditionally used to describe a lesbian woman who exhibits a feminine identity or gender presentation…View analysis →
Syntax (programming languages)The syntax of computer source code is code structured and ordered restricted to computer language rules. Like a natural language, a computer language (i.e. a programming…View analysis →
TonA ton is any of several units of measure of mass, volume or force. It has a long history and has acquired several meanings and uses.View analysis →
Prosody (linguistics)In linguistics, prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of elements of speech, including intonation, stress, rhythm and loudness, that occur simultaneously with individual…View analysis →
Phonological changeIn historical linguistics, phonological change is any sound change that alters the distribution of phonemes in a language. In other words, a language develops a new system of…View analysis →
Word dividerIn punctuation, a word divider is a glyph whose purpose is to separate words. In languages which use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic scripts, as well as other scripts of Europe…View analysis →
