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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
the citation form of a word can mean:
- its canonical form or lemma: the form of an inflectedInflectionIn grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, grammatical mood, grammatical voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case...
word given in dictionaries or glossaries, thus also called the dictionary form. - its strong form or isolation form: the way it is pronounced when spoken carefully and in isolation.