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• Aims and methods of quantitative linguistics
  ...l organisms, etc.) and, consequently, in the concepts which form the basis of the disciplines. ...h can be detected and analysed only with quantitative methods on the basis of quantitative concepts: features and interrelations which can be expressed o
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• Multilingualism
  Multilingualism is the situation in which a person has command of, or a community uses, two or more languages. Accordingly, one has to distin ...ntries where more than one official language is spoken. Not even a quarter of the world’s nations recognize two official languages (e.g. India, Canada)
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...omewhere in between these two extremes. The borders between the categories of ambiguity, polysemy and vagueness are fuzzy. Thus, there are lexical exampl ...ne meaning of an ambiguous expression can be used. There are several forms of ambiguity to be distinguished – according to their trigger:
  12 KB (1,883 words) - 16:39, 15 June 2014
• Code-switching
  ...se between people who have more than one language in common. Typically one of the two languages is dominant; the major language is often called the [[mat ...ltilinguals of forms from an embedded variety (or varieties) in utterances of a matrix variety during the same conversation"'' (Myers-Scotton 1993:3).
  10 KB (1,391 words) - 15:32, 31 January 2010
• Gustav Herdan
  ...al economy. From 1948, “Lecturer in Statistics” at the Faculty of Medicine of the University Bristol. ...Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, member of the Linguistic Society of America.
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• Coherence
  ...t becomes meaningful for the addressee rather than being a random sequence of unrelated sentences and clauses. ...l relationship between clauses and clause complexes, which are independent of grammatical structure.<br />
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• Irony
  ...rs. Typically, the intended meaning of ironical utterances is the opposite of the literal meaning. In most cases, irony expresses a negative or at least ...also Latin: ''ironia''), which means 'simulated ignorance', 'the pretence of ignorance'.
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• Cohesion
  ...r and makes the difference between an unrelated set of sentences and a set of sentences forming a unified whole. The difference of the presence or absence of cohesion for a text is illustrated in the following examples:
  22 KB (3,425 words) - 17:49, 26 June 2010
• Kaili (en)
  ...province were (1979) native speakers of a Kaili language. Object language of this article is the main dialect Ledo, which is spoken in the district ([[K ...not have a writing system and a written tradition before the introduction of the Latin script.
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