linguistic process

1. 1.

   a process involved in human language

   Broaderhuman process

   Narroweragglutinationassimilationderivationdissimilationdriftfusioninfectionlexicalizationmetathesisomission

   linguistics

2. 2.

   the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication

   “he didn't have the language to express his feelings”

   Synonymslanguage

   Broaderhigher cognitive process

   Narrowerreading

Questions about linguistic process

What does linguistic process mean?

linguistic process means "a process involved in human language". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for linguistic process?

Close synonyms include language. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is linguistic process a common word?

linguistic process is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.