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Guess a linguistics term for each letter from A to Z.

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Guess a linguistics term for each letter from A to Z.

by Gabriela Bessolo
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Empieza por A

adjective used to describe language and more specifically the linguistic sign

Empieza por B

Tower of... One of the myths that explain the origin of different languages

Empieza por C

A branch of historical linguistics which aimed at constructing language families by focusing on similarities between languages.

Empieza por D

Study of how languages change over time and across generations.

Empieza por F

Name of a foundational figure in structuralism, who introduced the concepts of sign, signifier, signified.

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A set of sound laws describing the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants. Named after a German author and linguist we associate with fairy tales.

Contiene la H

According to Trubetzkoy, the science that studies sounds in a system, paying attention to function, opposition and meaning.

Contiene la K

'The father of modern linguistics' - Noam ...

Empieza por L

In Saussure's terms, the system of abstract rules and conventions; the principles of language

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Branch of linguistics that studies how words are formed.

Empieza por N

A group of young German linguists who focused on studying sound changes (Verner, Noreen, Paul, Brugmann, among others)

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Smallest contrastive sound unit used to distinguish meaning.

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One of the main components of a sign, which refers to what the sign represents - the concept

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Russian linguist who proposed the study of Phonology and Phonetics as separate disciplines

Contiene la Y

Study of language as a system, at one given moment.

 
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