linguistic characteristics

collocation in English

meaningsoflinguisticandcharacteristic

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linguistic
adjective
uk
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
us
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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characteristic
noun[C]
uk
/ˌkær.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
us
/ˌker.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
a typical or noticeable quality of someone ...
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(Definition oflinguisticandcharacteristicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They also show the linguistic characteristics of individual lexical items and how individuals learn them (transfer of learning and transfer of training).
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Indeed, preliminary inventories of the general linguistic characteristics of the dialects reveals a plethora of archaic features.
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Thus, we have defined a methodology for specifying user requirements for functionality based on some linguistic characteristics of the user.
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This will be followed by an analysis of the linguistic characteristics, with a particular emphasis on lexical features.
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Attitudes were shown to vary according to evaluators' socio-demographic and linguistic characteristics.
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In spite of this, he designs a type of speech that does not fit their social and linguistic characteristics.
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Some of these linguistic characteristics are described later, since they have intrinsic fascination, even though only indirectly relevant to orthography.
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These children may exhibit differences depending on the linguistic characteristics of their speech communities.
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It will become apparent following the discussion of the linguistic characteristics that this is the case.
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However, when we classify the tokens according to cer tain linguistic characteristics, clear preferences for one or the other script emerge.
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Spoken dialogues have different linguistic characteristics, and the additional and very relevant information regarding intonation and prosody has to be taken into account.
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These new languages share a number of linguistic characteristics, apart from the fact that they all came into existence within a relatively short period of time.
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Research findings on the linguistic characteristics of maternal input to late talkers have been contradictory.
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Discourse analysis identified culturally bound linguistic characteristics of language use.
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Local education authorities are encouraged to make pro- vision for bilingual education that is in keeping with the linguistic characteristics of their areas.
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It also has a number of defining linguistic characteristics like rapping, rhyme and human beatboxing.
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Thus people speaking different languages can share certain linguistic characteristics.
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For an enumeration of linguistic characteristics and vocabulary deserving mention, see.
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