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  2. Mnemonic peg system - Wikipedia

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    For example, if a native English speaker is attempting to learn Spanish, he will notice that the Spanish for duck is pato, which is pronounced similarly to the English word pot. The individual can develop a mnemonic peg system in order to remember this association by thinking of a duck with a pot on its head.

  3. English prosody - Wikipedia

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    For example, green house and greenhouse differ in that the second word loses stress in the latter, and generally this type of semantic combination exhibits this prosodic pattern. There are many ways that prosody marks how words combine into phrases, often marked primarily at the phrase boundaries.

  4. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    The way words are often used together. For example, “do the dishes” and “do homework”, but “make the bed” and “make noise”. Colloquialism A word or phrase used in conversation – usually in small regions of the English-speaking world – but not in formal speech or writing: “Like, this dude came onto her real bad.”

  5. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.

  6. Human - Wikipedia

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    [362] [363] Humans often combine the different forms (for example, music videos). [364] Other entities that have been described as having artistic qualities include food preparation, video games, and medicine. [365] [366] [367] As well as providing entertainment and transferring knowledge, the arts are also used for political purposes. [368]

  7. Merge (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In this example by Cecchetto (2015), the verb "read" unambiguously labels the structure because "read" is a word, which means it is a probe by definition, in which "read" selects "the book". the bigger constituent generated by merging the word with the syntactic objects receives the label of the word itself, which allow us to label the tree as ...

  8. Drag Race terminology - Wikipedia

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    euphemism for C.U.N.T, shown by the first letter of each word chicken cutlets: gel inserts used to create cleavage [2] choices: a catchphrase used by Tatianna (season 2; All Stars season 2) [4] condragulations [2] [7] drag wordplay for the word "congratulations" cooking: allowing time for face powder to set [5] country realness

  9. Anthropomorphism - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of anthropomorphism include the attribution of human traits to animals, especially domesticated pets such as dogs and cats. Examples of this include thinking a dog is smiling simply because it is showing his teeth, [50] or a cat mourns for a dead owner. [51] Anthropomorphism may be beneficial to the welfare of animals.