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Sciences of Language at University of Aveiro

Language: Portuguese Studies in Portuguese
University website: www.ua.pt
Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: Doutor
Duration: 180 ECTS

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Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
Language
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act V, scene 2, line 12.
Language
Henry Drummond: Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damned few words that anybody understands!
Inherit the Wind (1960 film), Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
Language
Well languag'd Danyel.
William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, Book II. Song 2, line 303.
Preserving ecosystems and the biodiversity they support could reduce the emergence of infectious diseases from these natural systems. The current rates of biodiversity loss around the world could have major consequences for emerging diseases.
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