Understanding Language: Concepts, Grammar, and Lexical Items

Conceptualization: Defining Core Concepts

Conceptualization is the process of developing and clarifying concepts. In other words, it involves articulating one’s concepts with clear words and illustrative examples, ultimately leading to precise verbal definitions.

Dimensions & Measurement in Research

Understanding Dimensions

We classify different meanings into distinct groups, and such groups are referred to as dimensions. When a dimension is not directly observable, we rely on indicators to represent

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Understanding Linguistic Analysis: Grammar, Syntax, and Semantics

Linguistic Analysis

Pronunciation

  • Phonetics: Articulation of sounds, audition, perception of sounds, science.
  • Phonology: Sound systems, common sounds, existence/absence of sounds, branch of linguistics.

Grammar

  • Morphology: Word structure, morphemes, word forms (morphosyntactic features affected, no change syntactic category, inflection), lexemes (meaning, syntactic category).
  • Syntax: Constituent structure, steps: identification of constituents, syntactic categories, word order: canonical clause.

Meaning

  • Semantics:
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