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• Echoic use
  In '''echoic use''' of language speakers merely repeat utterances made by other speakers in order to achiev ...se of language has been claimed to be a key concept in the ironical use of language, esp. in the work done by Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber (e.g. Sperber & Wi
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• Context
  {{Wikipedia|Context (language use)}}
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• Formulaic language
  ...d and retrieved holistically rather than being generated de novo with each use. Examples of formulaic language include [[idiom]]s, [[set expression]]s, [[rhyme]]s, songs, prayers, and [[
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• Parameter
  ...mar parameters specify certain options: the [[core-grammar]] of a specific language, then, is the result of the specific setting of these parameters. ...etween languages, and puts restrictions on the number of choices which the language learner has to make.
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• Code-mixing
  ...syntax]] use the term as a synonym for [[code-switching]], the alternating use by bilingual speakers of two or more different languages within a single ut ...nsition from using linguistic units (words, phrases, clauses, etc.) of one language to using those of another within a single sentence" (Sridhar and Sridhar 19
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• Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
  ...lication and discussion of research on the quantitative characteristics of language and text in an exact mathematical form. Specifically, JQL publishes on: ...nguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, pragmatics, etc. as far as they use quantitative mathematical methods (probability theory, stochastic processes
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• Human information system
  .... One of the major means of putting out information is through the use of language -- the [[linguistic information system]]. But information can also be put ...p://books.google.com/books/about/Language_and_Reality.html?id=vrlPUxB2_JwC Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb], Continuum, 2004.
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• Motherese
  The language addressed to children by their caretakers is often called '''motherese'''. ...I will use the following broad definition of baby talk: ''Baby talk'': the language used by anyone in the linguistic community when addressing a child."'' (Ing
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• Principles and Parameters framework
  ...conception of grammar introduced in Chomsky (1981), which takes [[natural language]], i.e. our [[linguistic competence]] to be a complex of subsystems of prin * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Narrow relational network notation
  Here we also see the use of inhibitory [[blocking element|blocking elements]], which are a special t ...Lamb, Sydney M.]] 1999. Pathways of the Brain: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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• Borrowing (i.e. copying)
  ...e]]) '''borrows (i.e. copies)''' an element from a language Y (the [[donor language]]) means that it comes to include this element into its own system. ...'''borrowed elements''', which were imported at some time from a different language."'' (Lehmann 1962:212)
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• Visibility condition
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Language
  ...to French ''langue'' 'a particular language' and French ''langage'' 'human language, the ability to speak and understand speech'. ...ies was acquired more like Sanskrit, but is now widely used as an everyday language and acquired in early childhood.
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• Portal:Computational Linguistics
  == '''Language Analysis''' == == '''Natural Language Generation''' ==
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• Rigid designator
  ...n between a name and its bearer by a causal theory of reference: the first use of a name for an individual determines its designation independent of its m * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Theta-theory
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Pretence
  '''Pretence''' is often regarded as an important component of ironical use of language, e.g. by Clark & Gerrig (1984).
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• Perfective
  ..... puts too much emphasis on the termination of the situation, whereas the use of the perfective puts no more emphasis, necessarily, on the end of the sit ..., Rodney D. and Geoffrey K. Pullum. ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.'' Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
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• Montague Grammar
  ...ive to a model containing possible worlds and moments of time, and crucial use is made of #meaning postulates. The range of constructions and phenomena tr * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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