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Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning)

Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. One form of linguistic relativity, linguistic determinism, regards peoples'

linguistics. As an object of linguistic study, "language" has two primary meanings: an abstract concept, and a specific linguistic system, e.g. "French". The

genealogical relationship. There is a remarkably similar pattern shown by the linguistic tree and the genetic tree of human ancestry that was verified statistically

Linguistic categories include Lexical category, a part of speech such as noun, preposition, etc. Syntactic category, a similar concept which can also include

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy that first appeared in Richard

Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow

Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the

systems. Variables that take linguistic values are called linguistic variables. For example, "age" may be a linguistic variable if its values are not

Linguistic distance is the measure of how different one language (or dialect) is from another. Although they lack a uniform approach to quantifying linguistic