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Words, phrases, and acronyms specific to the study of linguistics.
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What defines a language?
I'm reading around multimodal text and many of the readings I have come across (Kress, Halliday) seem to define language as spoken or written communication. That seems to exclude sign language and pl …
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diphthong vs. digraph (English)
I want to check my understanding of these 2 terms:
diphthong (concerned with sound; 1 sound; represented 2 letters; not long or short)
digraph (concerned with graphemes; 2 letters; can be long or sho …