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Phonology

The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

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Orthoepy 76% connected

The art of uttering words correctly; a correct pronunciation of words; also, mode of pronunciation.

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Linguistics 84% connected

The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.

linguistics essentials 25% interchangeable

The study of sound systems.

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Morphology noun · 81% connection

That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their vari…

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Phonetics noun · 81% connection

The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

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Pragmatics noun · 81% connection

The study of what speakers mean in real situations, beyond the literal words.

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Semantics noun · 81% connection

The study of meaning in language.

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sociolinguistics noun · 81% connection

The study of how language varies across social groups and situations.

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Syntax noun · 81% connection

Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.

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Amoralism noun · 78% connection

the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid

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Articulate verb · 78% connection

To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

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Benthamism noun · 78% connection

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and dete…

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Clay noun · 78% connection

Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.

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Close verb · 78% connection

Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to…

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Cosmology noun · 78% connection

The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bod…

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Decane noun · 78% connection

A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

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Diacoustic adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.

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Echolalia noun · 78% connection

an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others

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Ethics noun · 78% connection

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting d…

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Falsetto noun · 78% connection

A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head vo…

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Fricative adjective · 78% connection

Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs…

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Fundamental interaction noun · 78% connection

(physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediate…

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Gabble noun · 78% connection

Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.

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Harmonics noun · 78% connection

The doctrine or science of musical sounds.

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Human adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human v…

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Interaction noun · 78% connection

(physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediate…

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Labarum noun · 78% connection

The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner…

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