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1. Language
   Our ability to communicate. Verbal language, biological in origin. Identify and discuss Broca's area (1869, speech articulation). Wernicke's area (1878, speech comprehension). Chomsky's LAD (language acquisition device).
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2. language
   [n] - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols 2. [n] - the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
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3. Language
   a system of symbols that allows members of a society to communicate with one another
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4. Language
   Lan'guage noun [ Middle English langage , French langage , from Latin lingua the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to English tongue . See Tongue , confer Lingual .] 1. Any means of conveying or com...
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5. Language
   Lan'guage transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Languaged ; present participle & verbal noun Languaging .] To communicate by language; to express in language. « Others were
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6. language
   1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. ... Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which usage has made the representatives of idea...
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7. language
   speech noun the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; `language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals`
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8. language
   linguistic communication noun a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; `he taught foreign languages`; `the language introduced is standard through...
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9. Language
   • (v. t.) To communicate by language; to express in language. • (n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. • (n.) The expression...
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10. Language
    (from the article `linguistics`) ...his first book in 1914, Bloomfield was strongly influenced by Wundt`s psychology of language. In 1933, however, he published a drastically revised ... ...of language and would necessarily remain so until the other sciences whose task it was to describe the universe and man`s place in it had advanced ....
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11. language
    a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, ... [49 related articles]
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12. language
    language 1. The speech of a country, region, or group of people, including its diction, syntax, and grammar. 2. The human use of spoken or written words as a communication system. 3. A system of communication with its own set of conventions or special words. 4. A nonverbal form of communication u...
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13. language
    A set of characters, phonemes, conventions, and rules used for conveying information. The aspects of a language are pragmatics, semantics, syntax, phonology, and morphology.
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14. language
    1. (language, programming) programming language. 2. (human language) natural language. (1998-09-07)
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15. language
    language, systematic communication by vocal symbols. It is a universal characteristic of the human species. Nothing is known of its origin, although scientists have identified a gene that clearly contributes to the human ability to use language. Scientists generally hold that it has been so long in ...
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16. Language
    The faculty which men possess of communicating their perceptions and ideas to one another by means of articulate sounds. This is the definition of spoken language; but ideas and perceptions may be communicated without sound by writing, and this is called written language. By conventional usage certa...
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17. language
    Type: Term Pronunciation: lang′gwăj Definitions: 1. The use of spoken, manual, written, and other symbols to express, represent, or receive communication.
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18. language
    Human communication through speech, writing, or both. Different nationalities or ethnic groups typically have different languages or variations on particular languages; for example, Armenians speaking the Armenian language and British and Americans speaking distinctive varieties of the English la...
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19. Language
    `Language` may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication. The scientific study of language in any of its senses is called linguistics. The approximately 3000–600...
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20. Language
    (Annie Crummer album) `Language` is the debut solo album by New Zealand singer, Annie Crummer released in 1992. Track listing: #Language #See Forever #See What Love Can Do featuring Herbs #All I Know #You Oughta Be in Love<small> (Dave Dobbyn cover...
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21. Language
    (journal) `Language` is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal published by the Linguistic Society of America since 1925. It covers all aspects of linguistics, focusing on the area of theoretical linguistics. Its current editor-in-chief is Gregory Carlson (University of Rochester)....
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