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Example sentences for: linguistics

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Leaving numeracy aside for the moment, those of us who have studied linguistics have usually been told that as language is essentially spoken, its written form is of lesser (or no) importance for the analysis of language.
Unfortunately, there has not been a good (bookwriting) linguist who was also a good writer of expository prose since Otto Jespersen, the Santayana of linguistics, and he died in 1943.
Anyone curious about technical linguistics will take delight in Wescott's comments on The Phonology of Proper Names in English.
The term taboo in linguistics means, simply, `proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable' [RHD2] , but Jay prefers the narrow, somewhat archaic, anthropologist's definition that focuses on “supernatural” and “ritualistic” interdiction.
Having edited Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics since 1970, Eckler knows letterplay better than anyone else.