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Language

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing.

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Physiological and neural architecture of language and speech

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Social contexts of use and transmission

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Language

Nodes509
Edges508
Triples477
Avg. degree2
Density0.003929
Components1

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Language

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related to Further reading · 47
Language → Acoustical Society, Aleksandra, Allison Parshall, Also, America, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Cognition, Conservation, Conversely, Crystal, Cysouw, David, Evelina Fedorenko, February, Formalizing, Gary, Good, GPT-2, However
related to Language families of the world · 33
Language → Africa, Ainu, Americas, Among, At, Basque, BCE, Burushaski, Cantonese, East Asia, English, Europe, European, French, German, Hakka, Hindi/Urdu, Hindustani, Indo-European, Japan
related to Languages and dialects · 21
Language → Before, Cantonese, Chinese, Croatian, English, For, Hakka, In, Mandarin, Max Weinreich, Norwegian, One Standard German Axiom, Pluricentric, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Standard American English, Standard RP, Swedish, The, There
related to history · 20
Language → AD, Akkadian, BC, British, Early, Ferdinand, French Port-Royal Grammarians, However, Humboldt, In, India, India William Jones, Indo-European, Pāṇini, Sanskrit, Saussure, Subsequent, Sumerian, The, Wilhelm
related to Typology and universals · 20
Language → Agents, All, Australian, English, For, Gamilaraay, In, In English, Languages, Object, Only, Patients, Some, SOV, Subject, Such, SVO, The, Verb, Word
related to Origin · 17
Language → Charles Darwin, Continuity-based, Herder, Humboldt, Michael Tomasello, Noam Chomsky, Other, Rousseau, Similarly, Some, Stephen Anderson, Steven Mithen, Steven Pinker, The, Theories, These, Those
see also · 17
Language → Bodies, Competence, Concept, Constructed, Disability, Father, GodPsycholinguistics, Hearing, Human, Mother, Overview, Philosophical, Right, Study, Taking, Tendency, Type
related to Contact · 15
Language → Also, Balkan, Before, But, Ethiopian, Europe, In, Mesoamerican, Multilingualism, One, South Asia, Southeast Asia, There, Through, When
related to Acquisition · 13
Language → All, Around, Charles Darwin, Children, First, From, In The Descent, Man, Several, Studies, The, This, Words
related to Change · 13
Language → All, Changes, English, Even, Germanic, Grimm's, Italic, Latin, On, Sometimes, Sound, The, This

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Important terminology

languages words meaning human example called different use many linguistic english may speech system writing word used sounds also sign

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Languageis away to inscribe or encode the natural human speech or gestures.Depending on philosophical perspectives regarding the definition of language and meaning0.90text
Languageis aonly known natural communication system whose adaptability may be referred to as modality independent0.90text
Languageis aset of syntactic rules that is universal for all humans and which underlies the grammars of all human languages0.90text
Languageis adialect with an army and navy0.90text
Jean-Jacques Rousseauinstance ofThinkers0.80text
Ludwig Wittgensteininstance ofTwentieth century philosophers0.80text
signifying group identityinstance oflanguage has social uses0.80text
social stratificationinstance oflanguage has social uses0.80text
as well as use for social groominginstance oflanguage has social uses0.80text
entertainment.Languages evolveinstance oflanguage has social uses0.80text
diversify over timeinstance oflanguage has social uses0.80text
and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by comparing modern languages to determine which traits their ancestral languages must have had in order for the later developmental stages to occurinstance oflanguage has social uses0.80text

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