Syntactic doubling — is an external sandhi phenomenon in Italian and some other Italo Western languages. It consists in the lengthening (gemination) of the initial consonant after words of certain categories. The phenomenon is variously referred to in the English… … Wikipedia
hierarchy — /huy euh rahr kee, huy rahr /, n., pl. hierarchies. 1. any system of persons or things ranked one above another. 2. government by ecclesiastical rulers. 3. the power or dominion of a hierarch. 4. an organized body of ecclesiastical officials in… … Universalium
Phonological hierarchy — describes a series of increasingly smaller regions of a phonological utterance. From larger to smaller units, it is as follows:#Utterance #Prosodic declination unit (DU) / intonational phrase (I phrase) #Prosodic intonation unit (IU) /… … Wikipedia
Implicational hierarchy — is a chain of implicational universals.A set of chained universals is schematically shown as in (1):(1) A > B > C > DIt can be reformulated in the following way: If a language has property D, then it also has properties A, B, and C; if a language … Wikipedia
Chomsky hierarchy — Within the field of computer science, specifically in the area of formal languages, the Chomsky hierarchy (occasionally referred to as Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy) is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. This hierarchy of… … Wikipedia
Level of detail (writing) — Level of detail in writing, sometimes known as level of abstraction, refers to three concepts: the precision in using the right words to form phrases, clauses and sentences [p.204, Wilson, Ferster Glazie] ; the generality of statements; and the… … Wikipedia
Noam Chomsky — Chomsky redirects here. For other topics with the same name, see Chomsky (disambiguation). Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky visiting Vancouver, Canada in 2004 … Wikipedia
linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… … Universalium
Jerzy Kuryłowicz — (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ kurɨˈwɔvit͡ʂ]; 1895 1978) was a Polish linguist who studied Indo European languages. He was the brother of Włodzimierz Kuryłowicz and his son is also called Jerzy Kuryłowicz. Contents 1 Life 2 Work in… … Wikipedia
Comparison of programming paradigms — Programming paradigms Agent oriented Automata based Component based Flow based Pipelined Concatenative Concurrent computin … Wikipedia
