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  2. Synthetic language - Wikipedia

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    A synthetic language is a language that is statistically characterized by a higher morpheme-to-word ratio. Rule-wise, a synthetic language is characterized by denoting syntactic relationships between words via inflection or agglutination, with fusional languages favoring the former and agglutinative languages the latter subtype of word synthesis.

  3. Polysynthetic language - Wikipedia

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    The word "polysynthesis" is composed of the Greek roots poly meaning "many" and synthesis meaning "placing together". In linguistics a word is defined as a unit of meaning that can stand alone in a sentence, and which can be uttered in isolation.

  4. Speech synthesis - Wikipedia

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    Speech synthesis systems use two basic approaches to determine the pronunciation of a word based on its spelling, a process which is often called text-to-phoneme or grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (phoneme is the term used by linguists to describe distinctive sounds in a language).

  5. Morphological typology - Wikipedia

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    Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world that groups languages according to their common morphological structures. The field organizes languages on the basis of how those languages form words by combining morphemes.

  6. Synthesizer - Wikipedia

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    Early Minimoog by R.A. Moog Inc. (c. 1970). A synthesizer (also synthesiser [1] or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and frequency modulation synthesis.

  7. Synthetic phonics - Wikipedia

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    Teachers using the analogy method may have students memorize a bank of phonograms, such as -at or -am, or use word families (e.g. can, ran, man, or may, play, say). [23] [21] [24] There have been studies on the effectiveness of instruction using analytic phonics vs. synthetic phonics.

  8. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Caesar shift: moving all the letters in a word or sentence some fixed number of positions down the alphabet; Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words. Anglish: a writing using exclusively words of Germanic origin; Auto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meanings; Autogram: a sentence that provide an inventory of its own ...

  9. Synthesis - Wikipedia

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    Photosynthesis, a biochemical reaction using a carbon molecule to produce an organic molecule, using sunlight as a catalyst; Chemosynthesis, the synthesis of biological compounds into organic waste, using methane or an oxidized molecule as a catalyst; Amino acid synthesis, the synthesis of an amino acid from its constituents