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crosslinguistic adjective language specialized(alsocross-linguistic)uk /ˌkrɒs.lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/ us /ˌkrɑːs.lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/ connected with two or more different languages and the relationship between them, or with the study of this: Words for colour, kinship terms, and food words frequently display crosslinguistic differences. Several factors can account for these cross-linguistic variations between European languages. Historical linguists can be misled if they do not consider language borrowing as a factor when explaining crosslinguistic similarities. The discipline of comparative linguistics involves identifying and evaluating crosslinguistic similarities. The study looks into the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aspects of language used by children. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Linguistic terms & linguistic style accentual affricate allophone allophony anaphor contextualize emphatic entailment etymological etymologically etymologist idiomatic inflected language philological philologically polysemy portmanteau word prescriptivism stylistics tautology
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