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linguistic

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Word definitions for linguistic in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, from French linguistique (1833); see linguist + -ic . The use of linguistic to mean "of or pertaining to language or languages" is "hardly justifiable etymologically," according to OED, but "has arisen because lingual suggests irrelevant associations." ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity" [syn: lingual ] [ant: nonlinguistic ] of or relating to the scientific study of language; "linguistic theory"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES linguistic diversity (= having many different languages ) ▪ The islands are well-known for their linguistic diversity. technical/linguistic/managerial etc competence ▪ There are many careers that require a high ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Linguistic \Lin*guis"tic\ (l[i^ ng]*gw[i^]s"t[i^]k), Linguistical \Lin*guis"tic*al\ (l[i^ ng]*gw[i^]s"t[i^]*kal), a. Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to language.

Usage examples of linguistic.

Although the intermingling of various linguistic and cultural groups contributed greatly to the enrichment of Islamic civilization, it also was a source of great tension and contributed to the decay of Abbasid power.

There are, however, complications, revealed particularly by the linguistic work of Isidore Dyen, who has suggested that the most likely homeland for the Austronesian languages is eastern Melanesia, not east Asia.

IOU principle in mathematics caused an uproar verging on panic, so the deconstructionists were the terrorists of the linguistic world, sending panic echoing down the halls of establishment academia.

Paradoxically almost, the linguistic facility which makes Nabokov such an excellent game-player also encourages these readers, through its defamiliarizing effects, to think anew about artistry and reality, subjectivity and alterity, authority and autonomy.

The phenomenologists were simply no match for such items as linguistic intersubjectivity and the patterns that it displayed, patterns that could not be recovered in phenomenology.

Many primatologists will recognize experiments, stories, and anecdotes in this book that were adapted from nonfiction accounts of raising chimpanzees in human families, observations of chimpanzees in the wild, and cognitive and linguistic studies of chimpanzees.

Knowledge has to become linguistic action and philosophy has to become a real reappropriation of knowledge.

Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis.

These were the code and cipher section for the linguistic steganograms and the laboratory section for the technological.

With the superencipherment stripped off, the linguistic group solved a big 72,000-group code with not too much trouble.

I will attempt to show how this seemingly anomalous image is actually related to a series of Tolstoyan linguistic devices for depicting death, and is in fact the ultimate device in that series.

But it was not until the first experiments decades ago in teaching chimpanzees human sign-language that any important linguistic capacity became apparent in them.

One would certainly guess that the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees are governed, as in humans, in the left temporal lobe.

If the plan is to observe a community of intelligent primates over a period of many human generations, studying the changes in their intellectual capacity as their linguistic skills increase, then we must at all times take care to let them find things out for themselves, rather than skewing our data by giving the chimps more than their current concept-processing abilities may be able to handle.

Sigint database was loaded on IBM 370 mainframes, and obsolete PDP-8 and PDP-11 computers were used for linguistic analysis.