Definition of Linguistic process
1. Noun. A process involved in human language.
Specialized synonyms: Agglutination, Assimilation, Derivation, Dissimilation, Drift, Fusion, Infection, Lexicalisation, Lexicalization, Metathesis, Deletion, Omission, Synaeresis, Syneresis
Generic synonyms: Human Process
2. Noun. The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication. "He didn't have the language to express his feelings"
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Literary usage of Linguistic process
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Inference is a deeper thinking process from judgments to judgment, which only
occasionally and partially emerges in the linguistic process from propositions ..."
2. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1904)
"But the analogy of this linguistic process to that of the scientific method must not
... The linguistic process deals always with extremely similar data—the ..."
3. Theory and Practice of Language Teaching: With Special Reference to French by Edward Creagh Kittson (1918)
"As we have already seen, Wundt has made it clear that the linguistic process,
the intellectual operation by which sentences are formed ..."
4. Modern English: Its Growth and Present Use by George Philip Krapp (1909)
"It should be observed, however, that this method of word creation by the invention
of slang through metaphor is a natural linguistic process that has gone ..."
5. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting Held at by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1904)
"But the analogy of this linguistic process to that of the scientific method must not
... The linguistic process deals always with extremely similar data—the ..."
6. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1891)
"But whatever the difficult Indian linguistic process may have been, the New
England men soon settled on wampum and peage as the working names for this ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... in shorthand systems the rational application of the natural but unconscious
linguistic process of adaptation to the purposive abbreviation of words. ..."
8. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir (1921)
"Indeed the apprehension of the scientific truth is itself a linguistic process,
for thought is * The question of the transferability of art productions ..."
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