what are the different types of language features?
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['Alliteration. This is where the first letter of a word is repeated in words that follow. ... ', 'Assonance. This is where the same vowel sound is repeated but the consonants are different. ... ', 'Colloquial language. This is language used in speech with an informal meaning. ... ', 'Dissonance. ... ', 'Hyperbole. ... ', 'Metaphor. ... ', 'Oxymoron. ... ', 'Personification.']
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['Sound (overtone, timbre, pitch, amplitude, duration)', 'Melody.', 'Harmony.', 'Rhythm.', 'Texture.', 'Structure/form.', 'Expression (dynamics, tempo, articulation)']
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['Complexity. Written language is relatively more complex than spoken language. ... ', 'Formality. Academic writing is relatively formal. ... ', 'Precision. In academic writing, facts and figures are given precisely. ... ', 'Objectivity. Written language is in general objective rather than personal. ... ', 'Explicitness. ... ', 'Accuracy. ... ', 'Hedging. ... ', 'Responsibility.']
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There are three major functions of language. Informative, expressive and the directive are the major functions of language which interact with personality, society and culture.
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['Language Differences. ... ', 'Body Language. ... ', 'Level of Context. ... ', 'Value of Time. ... ', 'Negative Stereotypes and Prejudices. ... ', 'Feelings and Emotions.']
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['Language types. Machine and assembly languages. Algorithmic languages. FORTRAN. ALGOL. LISP. C. Business-oriented languages. COBOL. SQL. Education-oriented languages. BASIC. Pascal. Logo. Hypertalk. Object-oriented languages. C++ Ada. Java. Visual Basic. Declarative languages. ... ', 'Elements of programming. Control structures. Data structures.']
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['Machine language.', 'Assembly language.', 'High-level language.']
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['Paralanguage (vocal cues) - vocal qualities and “extra-symbolic” codes.', 'Proxemics (space) - territoriality (markers), spatial arrangement, touch (haptics), and personal space. ... ', 'Appearance and body type, clothing, artifacts (objects) , environment (colors, architecture, temperature, etc.)']
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['First generation languages (1GL)', 'Second generation languages (2GL)', 'Third generation languages (3GL)', 'Fourth generation languages (4GL)', 'Fifth generation languages (5GL)']
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['lexis (vocabulary),', 'grammar (structure);', 'phonology (pronunciation or accent).']
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['Alliteration.', 'Allusion.', 'Irony.', 'Metaphor.', 'Parallel Structure.', 'Personification.', 'Simile.']
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Besides countability, nouns can be described by four other important grammatical characteristics: gender, number, person, and case.
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['determiners and pronouns, which can refer back to earlier words.', 'conjunctions and adverbs, which can make relations between words clear.', 'ellipsis of expected words.']
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Finally, like some spoken languages, ASL incorporates classifiers, linguistic markers that identify such features as the size, shape, animacy, and function of objects. In ASL different handshapes encode these properties of the objects and are incorporated into movement verbs (Wilbur, 1987; Schick, 1990).
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['Usage: Parts of Speech. Traditional grammar organizes words based on eight different parts of speech. ... ', 'Diction. Diction is the proper use of words. ... ', 'Style: Sentence Structure. ... ', 'Style: Spelling. ... ', 'Proper Punctuation.']
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That being said, six key properties of language have been described by linguists. These six features are arbitrariness, cultural transmission, discreteness, displacement, duality, and productivity.
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In linguistics, a distinctive feature is the most basic unit of phonological structure that may be analyzed in phonological theory. Distinctive features are grouped into categories according to the natural classes of segments they describe: major class features, laryngeal features, manner features, and place features.