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Dictionary of language and linguistics 12122 Generally speaking, a language in which laws, public announcements, tradeagreements, and political documents of international significance are composed, e.g.English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and others. ( also interlingua, koiné)3 Term sometimes used synonymously with pidgin.traditional grammarschool grammartranscortical aphasiaaphasiatranscription1 Process and result of rendering a text in one script (e.g. a logographic one such asChinese)Philip washes himself from Philip 1 washes Philip 1into the form of an (alphabetic) text. In transcription, a one-to-one correspondence rarelyexists. More than any other system, the IPA (see the chart on p. xix) can be used mostsuccessfully as a transcription language. Chinese is transcribed according to the Pīnyīnsystem, Japanese according either to the Hepburn or Kunrei-siki systems.2 phonetic transcriptiontransferTerm from psychology for the intensifying or retardive influence of earlier behavioralpatterns in learning new behavioral patterns. In linguistics, the transfer of linguistic