• In linguistics, branching refers to the shape of the parse trees that represent the structure of sentences. Assuming that the language is being written...
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  • Branching may refer to: Branching (linguistics), the general tendency towards a given order of words within sentences and smaller grammatical units within...
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  • divisions. Linguistics encompasses many branches and subfields that span both theoretical and practical applications. Theoretical linguistics (including...
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  • guide to linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. Linguistics can be theoretical...
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  • branching. Head-initial phrases are right-branching, head-final phrases are left-branching, and head-medial phrases combine left- and right-branching...
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  • Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology...
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  • Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature...
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  • other branching styles require the listener to hold more information in memory to be able to correctly interpret the sentence. Branching (linguistics) "How...
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    investigation, trial, and judicial procedure. It is a branch of applied linguistics. Forensic linguistics is an umbrella term covering many applications to...
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  • node under the PSR can branch into any number of different nodes, allowing non-branching, binary-branching, ternary-branching, and so forth. If we illustrate...
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  • Syllable (redirect from Final (linguistics))
    having lines that branch in a tree diagram. In some languages, heavy syllables include both VV (branching nucleus) and VC (branching rime) syllables, contrasted...
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  • Syntax (redirect from Syntax (linguistics))
    In linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/ SIN-taks) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central...
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    metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in...
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  • directionality of the nodes N'2 and N'3: One is left-branching, while the other is right-branching. Accordingly, the X-bar theory, more specifically the...
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  • Both can be taken as a reference to the theory of language, or the branch of linguistics that inquires into the nature of language and seeks to answer fundamental...
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  • In linguistics, morphology (mor-FOL-ə-jee) is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another...
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  • Applied linguistics is a practical use of language. Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field. Major branches of applied linguistics include bilingualism...
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  • Formal linguistics is the branch of linguistics which uses applied mathematical methods for the analysis of natural languages. Such methods include formal...
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  • Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic...
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  • Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics and anthropology which deals with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context...
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  • Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems. Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars...
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  • Corpus linguistics is an empirical method for the study of language by way of a text corpus (plural corpora). Corpora are balanced, often stratified collections...
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    known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major...
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  • Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types, but particularly literary texts, and spoken language...
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    internal branching, though he did find an area of increased contact between the Bahnaric and Katuic languages, such that languages of all branches apart...
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  • Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating...
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    The Indo-European family is significant to the field of historical linguistics as it possesses the second-longest recorded history of any known family...
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    as being a branch of linguistics and by others as being an offshoot of language geography which is further defined in terms of being a branch of human geography...
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  • participants are directly represented in the syntax by means of binary branching. This branching ensures that the Specifier is the consistently subject, even when...
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  • Philology (category Historical linguistics)
    intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study...
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