Category: Languages
Created by: Cornely
Number of Blossarys: 3
English (EN) An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) and sometimes ...
A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's notion that words should be defined using ...
In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be pronounced in isolation with objective or practical meaning. A word may consist of a single morpheme, or several, whereas a morpheme may ...
In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition is the process of word formation that creates ...
Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics. Philology is more commonly defined as the study of ...
Simultaneous bilingualism is a form of bilingualism that takes place when a child becomes bilingual by learning two languages from birth.Children who are regularly addressed in two spoken languages ...
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most ...
