Information about Vocabulary
A vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of a specific language.
The vocabulary of a person is defined either as the set of all words that are understood by that person or the set of all words likely to be used by that person when constructing new sentences. So "curse" is a regular part of the vocabulary of native English speakers but "imprecate" is not, even though the two words are synonyms. The richness of a person's vocabulary is popularly thought to be a reflection of intelligence or level of education. Accordingly, many standardised tests, such as the SAT, have questions that test vocabulary.
Increasing the size of one's vocabulary, also called vocabulary building, is generally considered to be an important part of both learning a language and improving one's skills in a language in which one is already proficient. Hence schoolchildren are often taught new words as a part of a particular unit or lesson. Similarly, many adults find vocabulary building to be a fun and educational activity, as evidenced in the popularity of "word-a-day" services such as mailing lists and desktop calendars.
The word "vocabulary" is also used figuratively for qualities or techniques distinctive to a particular style, especially an architectural style.
Many teachers help students expand their vocabulary by assigning packets to be done weekly.
Brain research has found that the brain is managing vocabulary through mental orthographic images (MOI), a database of visual imprints of words learned. Since the brain has the ability to quickly jump to conclusions as it hears words, it is to be expected that a similar database is storing sound impressions of words as well.
Mental orthographic images enable the mind to quickly skip through text, absorbing its content without actually deciphering words letter by letter. It seems that the educated mind makes writing decisions based on what "looks right" and reading decisions based on what "looks like", allowing for rapid processing.
A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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Synonyms (in ancient Greek, συν ("syn") = plus and όνομα ("onoma") = name
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The vocabulary of a person is defined either as the set of all words that are understood by that person or the set of all words likely to be used by that person when constructing new sentences. So "curse" is a regular part of the vocabulary of native English speakers but "imprecate" is not, even though the two words are synonyms. The richness of a person's vocabulary is popularly thought to be a reflection of intelligence or level of education. Accordingly, many standardised tests, such as the SAT, have questions that test vocabulary.
Increasing the size of one's vocabulary, also called vocabulary building, is generally considered to be an important part of both learning a language and improving one's skills in a language in which one is already proficient. Hence schoolchildren are often taught new words as a part of a particular unit or lesson. Similarly, many adults find vocabulary building to be a fun and educational activity, as evidenced in the popularity of "word-a-day" services such as mailing lists and desktop calendars.
The word "vocabulary" is also used figuratively for qualities or techniques distinctive to a particular style, especially an architectural style.
Many teachers help students expand their vocabulary by assigning packets to be done weekly.
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According to Jean Aitchison, the time to recognise a word may be less than 200 ms after onset; in many cases the word is already recognised before it has even ended. (Shadowing and lexical decision tasks were used to determine this number.)Brain research has found that the brain is managing vocabulary through mental orthographic images (MOI), a database of visual imprints of words learned. Since the brain has the ability to quickly jump to conclusions as it hears words, it is to be expected that a similar database is storing sound impressions of words as well.
Mental orthographic images enable the mind to quickly skip through text, absorbing its content without actually deciphering words letter by letter. It seems that the educated mind makes writing decisions based on what "looks right" and reading decisions based on what "looks like", allowing for rapid processing.
See also
- Glossary
- Grammar
- Idiom
- Jargon
- Lexicon
- Part of speech
- Register (linguistics)
- Slang
- Technical terminology
- Term
- Terminology
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A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together, and has a phonetical value. Typically a word will consist of a root or stem and zero or more affixes.
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See Language (journal) for the linguistics journal.
A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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For the taxonomical term, see .
Synonyms (in ancient Greek, συν ("syn") = plus and όνομα ("onoma") = name
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A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1]
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The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is administered by the College Board corporation, a non-profit organization in the United States,[1]
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Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. A wider definition often includes the design of the total built environment: from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the microlevel of construction details and,
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Jean Aitchison is a Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
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Shadow may refer to:
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- Shadow, the optical phenomenon cast by an object blocking a source of light
- Shadow (psychology), in Jungian psychology, a portion of the unconscious mind
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The lexical decision task is a procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments. The basic procedure involves measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords.
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glossary is a list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book which are either newly introduced or at least uncommon.
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Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a given natural language, and as such a field of linguistics. Traditionally, grammar included morphology and syntax, in modern linguistics commonly expanded by the subfields of phonetics, phonology, orthography, semantics, and
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An idiom is an expression (i.e., term or phrase) whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definitions and the arrangement of its parts, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through common use.
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lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. More formally, it is a language's inventory of lexemes.
The lexicon includes the lexemes used to actualize words. Lexemes are formed according to morpho-syntactic rules and express sememes.
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The lexicon includes the lexemes used to actualize words. Lexemes are formed according to morpho-syntactic rules and express sememes.
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In grammar, a lexical category (also word class, lexical class, or in traditional grammar part of speech) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items
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Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language. Slang is often highly regional, specific to a particular territory.
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Technical terminology is the specialized vocabulary of a field. These terms have specific definitions within the field, which is not necessarily the same as their meaning in common use.
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Term may refer to:
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- Term (language), a word or compound word used in a specific context
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Terminology is the study of terms and their use — of words and compound words that are used in specific contexts.
Terminology also denotes a more formal discipline which systematically studies the labelling or designating of concepts
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Terminology also denotes a more formal discipline which systematically studies the labelling or designating of concepts
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