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linguistic

[ling-gwis-tik] / lɪŋˈgwɪs tɪk /


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This dual-language class is also a federally funded Head Start program — long considered a gold standard in early childhood education — and must integrate learning with each child’s cultural and linguistic upbringing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Ordinary people acquire one more linguistic choice through which to signal agreement, resistance or exhausted indifference.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

"It really upends a theory that says that symbolic rule induction is not possible without linguistic capacities," says Kean.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Officials released the two notes on Friday, asking the public for help identifying the writer, whose "distinct linguistic characteristics may be recognisable".

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Although lexicographers have neither the desire nor the power to prevent linguistic conventions from changing, this does not mean, as purists fear, that they cannot state the conventions in force at a given time.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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