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linguistic analysis

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noun

  1. a 20th-century philosophical movement inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein and marked by close attention paid to the way words are used in order to clarify concepts and to eliminate confusions arising from mystifying preconceptions about language.


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"I call them Large Language Models, not artificial intelligence because they engage in linguistic analysis and prediction - nothing more," she says.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2025

She is also a textualist who subjects every statute to rigorous linguistic analysis, though she will sometimes look to congressional intent, as well.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2023

A new linguistic analysis suggests that the choice Adams made—substituting in the word “Belgium” at every instance—may unconsciously have reflected a cross-language pattern of using certain consonant sounds to soften “taboo” words.

From Scientific American Dec. 6, 2022

There are many other places outside of pure linguistic analysis and mathematics where intuitions are helpful.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

It was only with aspirin and something Fay concocted for me that I was able to finish my linguistic analysis of Urdu verb forms and send the paper to the International Linguistics Bulletin.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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