linguisticsnoun [ U ]
uk/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪks/us/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪks/also linguistic sciencethe scientific study of the structure and development of language in general or of particular languages
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- affricate
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- anaphor
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- anaphoric
- double entendre
- ellipsis
- idiomatic
- irregular
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- litotes
- neurolinguistics
- parallelism
- philology
- portmanteau word
- semiotics
- stylistics
- tone language
- tongue
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