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  • '''[[Polysemy]]''' is defined in [[Quantitative Linguistics]] as the number of different [[meaning]]s or [[function]]s of a linguistic unit. ...inguistic unit. E.g., the polysemy of a word may be operationalised as the number of meanings given in a specific dictionary.
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  • A '''numeral''' is a member of a [[word class]] whose members are used to express numbers in one way or another (fo ...r]] in the sense of singular/plural and similar distinctions. Numerals are word that express precise numbers such as 'one', 'two', 'three', 'seventy-seven'
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  • ...ern, or initial phoneme. This phenomenon suggests that certain features of word structure are stored independently of others.
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  • ...r misleading term). The P. of a morpheme might be measured in terms of the number of different words it occurs in (by some authors confused with the term "pr Word P. morpheme P. and other units have been investigated with respect to their
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  • ...particular. We will therefore refer to the intersecting categories of the word...as '''morphosyntactic categories''' specifically."'' (Matthews 1974:66) *Matthews, Peter H. 1974. ''Morphology: an introduction to the theory of word-structure.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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  • ...decrease), the important role of context allows for the possibility that a word is recognised that deviates strongly from the acoustic input. * Morton, J. 1969. 'Interaction of information in word recognition.' ''Psychological Review'' 76, 165-178
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  • The term '''expletive''' is used in a number of different ways: * in nontechnical usage, it refers to a rude word (such as ''bloody'' or ''fucking''); see [[expletive infixation]];
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  • ...particular. We will therefore refer to the intersecting categories of the word...as '''morphosyntactic categories''' specifically."'' (Matthews 1974:66) *Matthews, Peter H. 1974. ''Morphology: an introduction to the theory of word-structure.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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  • ...-boundary or formative-boundary [[affix]] (i.e. ''+ity''), and ''-ness'' a word-boundary [[affix]] (i.e. ''#ness''). ...h [[suffix]]es ''-ity'' and ''-ness'' behave differently with respect to a number of phonological rules, as shown in (i).
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  • ...ms of the same word showing alternate morphemes. For example, the singular number of English nouns is shown by a null morpheme that contrasts with the plural ...clean, to slow, to warm. Null derivation, also known as conversion if the word class changes, is very common in English.
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  • ...uency, or more correctly frequency of occurrence, is the number of times a word appears in the language, usually measured in occurrences per million words.
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  • ...q. The probability p is also a random variable since the application of a word is not independent of its co-text. Under the assumption that p is distribut * Determination of the class of the unit (e.g., part of speech of a word)
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  • ...a [[vowel]] in the first [[syllable]] of a [[word]] is shortened when the number of syllables that follow the [[stress]]ed syllable increases. This effect i
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  • ...h resemble verbal phrases (in our example ''drive a truck'') by means of a number of [[lexical transformation]]s. See [[First Order Projection Condition]].
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  • ...esent here a brief outline of Kiparsky's (1982) model, and next refer to a number of publications in which this model has undergone more or less significant ...mation and syntactic processes. Since the appearance of Kiparsky's paper a number of different models of Lexical Morphology/Phonology have been proposed, mak
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  • ...assigns main word stress applies domain-finally at the line indicated with number 3 and adds a grid mark to the rightmost column above the penultimate syllab
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  • ...] (or [[cross-referencing]]) paradigms that distinguish most or all person-number combinations and therefore make the use of [[independent pronoun]]s redunda Italian has the folloiwng person-number paradigm, which is said to exibit rich agreement:
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  • In phonetics, a '''cohort model''' is a theory of auditory word recognition. ...competitors early on in the processing of a word. Only later, when a small number of candidates still fits the sensory input, context starts to affect the ac
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  • ''Derivation'' has a number of other senses: * the process of [[to derive|deriving]] a complex word A on the basis of a [[base]] B.
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  • ...lysis of sentences, and morphological decomposition (in order to split the word up in morphemes and to predict lexical stress). Then there is the phonetic
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