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  2. Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ...

  3. Register (phonology) - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / /, ⫽ ⫽, and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonology, a register, or pitch register, is a prosodic feature of syllables in certain languages in which tone, vowel phonation, glottalization or similar features depend upon one another. It occurs in Burmese, Vietnamese, Wu Chinese and ...

  4. Variety (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    e. In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, [1] is a specific form of a language or language cluster. This may include languages, dialects, registers, styles, or other forms of language, as well as a standard variety. [2] The use of the word variety to refer to the different forms avoids the use of the term language ...

  5. Literary language - Wikipedia

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    Literary language. Literary language is the form (register) of a language used when writing in a formal, academic, or particularly polite tone; when speaking or writing in such a tone, it can also be known as formal language. It may be the standardized variety of a language.

  6. x86 calling conventions - Wikipedia

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    This article describes the calling conventions used when programming x86 architecture microprocessors . Calling conventions describe the interface of called code: The order in which atomic (scalar) parameters, or individual parts of a complex parameter, are allocated. How parameters are passed (pushed on the stack, placed in registers, or a mix ...

  7. Sociolect - Wikipedia

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    Sociolect. In sociolinguistics, a sociolect is a form of language ( non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class, profession, age group, or other social group. [1] [2]

  8. Vocal register - Wikipedia

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    A vocal register is a range of tones in the human voice produced by a particular vibratory pattern of the vocal folds. These registers include modal voice (or normal voice), vocal fry, falsetto, and the whistle register. [1] [2] [3] Registers originate in laryngeal function. They occur because the vocal folds are capable of producing several ...

  9. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English - Wikipedia

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    Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English ( LGSWE) is a descriptive grammar of English written by Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, and Edward Finegan, first published by Longman in 1999. It is an authoritative description of modern English, a successor to A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (ComGEL ...