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Noun	1.	linguistic process - a process involved in human language linguistics - the scientific study of language agglutination - the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining assimilation - a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound derivation - (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation; "`singer' from `sing' or `undo' from `do' are examples of derivations" dissimilation - a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other; "the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation" drift - a process of linguistic change over a period of time fusion - the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words human process - a process in which human beings are involved infection - (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound lexicalisation, lexicalization - the process of making a word to express a concept metathesis - a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence deletion, omission - any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases synaeresis, syneresis - the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong
	2.	linguistic process - the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; "he didn't have the language to express his feelings" language higher cognitive process - cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use reading - the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; "his main reading was detective stories"; "suggestions for further reading"

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Indeed, the introduction provides an excellent overview of Tolkien's ideas on language, the intellectual context surrounding International Auxiliary Languages (IALs), and the contentious issue of "sound symbolism," fitting sense to sound, something deeply questioned by contemporary linguistics but essential to Tolkien's creative linguistic process. Much of this overview, granted, can be found in other sources, most notably Part II of Dimitra Fimi's own Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History (2008), but the new information and up-to-date research means that the editors go well beyond rehashing old information.

Fimi, Dimitra, and Andrew Higgins, eds. A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages

In this study, the majority of the teachers (98%) admitted that a vast amount of students switch codes during their earliest years in their classrooms (predominantly during the transition linguistic process [1st through 3rd grades]).

The impact of regional differences on elementary school teachers' attitudes towards their students' use of code switching in a South Texas school district/ El impacto de las diferencias regionales en las actitudes de docentes de primaria respecto a la alternancia de codigos por parte de los estudiantes en un distrito escolar del sur de Texas

Korzybski refers to this property of language as multiordinality, which he abbreviates as m.o., and argues that one of the benefits of becoming conscious of the multiordinality of language is that "the whole linguistic process becomes extremely flexible, yet it preserves its essential extensional one-valued character, in a given case" (p.

Poetry Ring

However, writing is not a linguistic process per se.

Thinking on the write path: Mohammad Ali Salmani-Nodoushan emphasises the importance of cognitive orientation to the success of EFL students in writing courses

In a linguistic process known as metanalysis, the 'r' from atter was shifted onto the 'e', becoming 'atte re'.

Crossing the Rea through the ages; Remember When?

<IR> ETHNOPOETICS </IR> also emphasizes psychic and linguistic process in an attempt to integrate visionary and historical experience and to recuperate a native American tradition, while language poetry ( <IR> see LANGUAGE POETS </IR> ) focusing on linguistic processes within a social and historical matrix, analyzes the construction of the postindividual writing subject.

Poetry: Since 1960

Making reference to Nelson's study, (3) Deborah Cao incorrectly uses the concept of 'multilingual drafting' when presenting the linguistic process involved in drafting the Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982, as part of the UN.

Upgrading the profile of the legal translator in the EU, Canada and Switzerland

Content-based instruction, in which the linguistic process is driven by cultural and real-world information from authentic texts, rather than by language learning for its own sake (Ballman, 1997) fits easily into the constructivist paradigm, as do related whole language approaches.

Designing instructional technology for language learning

The following three examples illustrate how a careful selection of L1 (Japanese) literary texts, along with film adaptations of the novels, can effectively promote students' social and cultural learning as well as appreciation of the literature through the linguistic process of translation itself.

Translating literature and learning culture

Here the author highlights the importance of explicitly teaching students to develop a repertoire of strategies, including morphological processing, and a need for teachers to develop confidence and knowledge of the linguistic processes involved in spelling.

Editorial

This long-term perspective has allowed Hoem to witness the political, social, and linguistic processes related to the issue of self-determination for Tokelau, which she refers to both as an 'emerging nation state' and as 'a so-called non-self-governing territory of New Zealand'--questions surrounding this status run like a red thread throughout the book.

Languages of Governance in Conflict. Negotiating Democracy in Tokelau