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noun

• the humanistic study of language and literature

23%9 A branch of linguistics that deals with the study of the sounds or pronunciation of human speech
noun

• the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis

23%7 Units in linguistics
noun

• a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'

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