
Sentence consisting of different types of words
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Glossary of linguistic terms
Similarly to our first glossary, this one is dedicated to the linguistic terms that will be needed to understand the content of the following weeks. Here is a list of the terms that were introduced and their definitions.
Adjective
- Word class describing qualities (of nouns): big, democratic
Article
- Also called determiner, accompanies a noun or adjective: a(n), the
Articulation
- The movement of speech organs such as tongue, lips, jaw, vocal folds etc to produce speech sounds.
Broca, Paul
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Characters
- Written element of language, representing syllables or whole words
Grammar
- The set of rules of a language that defines how sentences are build to form a unit
Letters
- Written element of alphabet, representing sounds
Neurolinguistics
- Discipline of linguistics that is concerned with the neural basis of language in the human brain
Noun
- One of the universal word classes, denoting people, places, event, substances…, often marked for gender, number and case: table, elephant, democracy
Preposition
- Word class denoting spatial or temporal relation of two entities: under, in
Verb
- Second universal word class, denoting actions or states, often marked for person, number, tense, aspect, mood and various other linguistic features: walking, thinking, voting
Wernicke, Carl
- See the next step
Word finding difficulties
- A phenomenon that accompanies several aphasias, but can happen in the healthy brain as well. The situation of searching for a specific content word (noun, verb or adjective), while being able to produce the rest of the sentence
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