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noun A part of speech that describes stable features of human experience.
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onomatopoeic words Words that have come from efforts to imitate the sounds of what they stand for.
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paradigmatic perspective studies how different words are grouped together into conceptual categories by wharing certain elements in their internal structure.
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Parts of speech Word classes established on the basis of similarities in meaning, function and internal structure.
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phonetics A branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds of speech.
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pragmatics A branch of linguistics that studies how language is used in different social contexts.
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prefix A type of affix placed at the beginning of a base word.
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preposition A part of speech that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word.
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pronoun A part of speech that is used to replace nouns.
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reduplication A word formation process in which part or all of a word is repeated.
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