| linguistic | (adj) consisting of or related to language, Syn. lingual, Ant. nonlinguistic, Example: linguistic behavior; a linguistic atlas; lingual diversity |
| linguistic | (adj) of or relating to the scientific study of language, Example: linguistic theory |
| linguistically | (adv) with respect to the science of linguistics, Example: linguistically interesting data |
| linguistically | (adv) with respect to language, Syn. lingually, Example: linguistically impaired children; a lingually diverse population |
| linguistic competence | (n) (linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance) |
| linguistic performance | (n) (linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence) |
| linguistic process | (n) a process involved in human language |
| linguistic process | (n) the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication, Syn. language, Example: he didn't have the language to express his feelings |
| linguistic profiling | (n) using speech characteristics or dialect to identify a speaker's race or religion or social class |
| linguistic relation | (n) a relation between linguistic forms or constituents |
