biolinguistics
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/noun
With singular concord. The study of the biological and evolutionary basis of language; the relationship between biological and linguistic factors in an individual or race.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Quarterly Journal Speech Education. From bio- + linguistics.
- self-sterility
- self-stick
- self-stimulation
- self-storage
- self-study
- self-styled
- self-subsistent
- self-sufficiency
- self-sufficient
- self-sufficiently
- self-sufficing
- self-suggestion
- self-support
- self-supporting
- self-surrender
- self-sustained
- self-sustaining
- self-sustenance
- self-system
- self-tailing
- self-tan
- self-tanner
- xenon
- Xenophanes
- xenophile