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Linguistic vs Aural - What's the difference?

linguistic | aural |

As adjectives the difference between linguistic and aural

is that linguistic is linguistic while aural is of or pertaining to the ear or aural can be of or pertaining to an aura.

linguistic

English

Adjective

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  • Of or relating to language.
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  • Of or relating to linguistics.
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  • We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.
  • (computing) Relating to a computer language.
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  • The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.

    Derived terms

    * linguistic atlas * linguistic turn * logicolinguistic * quasilinguistic * sociolinguistic

    aural

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the ear.
  • Of or pertaining to sound.
  • Derived terms
    * aurally * binaural * cervicoaural * dextraural * sinistraural

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to an aura.
  • Anagrams

    * English contranyms