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Linguistic processes refer to the cognitive and structural operations involved in the production, comprehension, and organization of language. The concept encompasses the mechanisms through which linguistic units are selected, combined, interpreted, and transformed within a language system, including processes operating at phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic levels [1]. In linguistics, these processes are studied as systematic relationships between linguistic representations and the operations that generate or interpret them, distinguishing them from static descriptions of linguistic structures such as inventories of sounds, words, or grammatical categories [2]. Linguistic processes may involve both internally organized language mechanisms and interactions between linguistic forms and contextual factors that influence meaning construction and communication [3].

language processing linguistic structure language production language comprehension
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  1. Willem J. M. Levelt. Speaking; MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, United States, 1989. [CrossRef]
  2. Chomsky, Noam. 1965. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. MIT Press. https://www.colinphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/chomsky1965-ch1.pdf
  3. O’Grady, William, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, and Janie Rees-Miller. 2019. Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction. Bedford/St. Martin’s.
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