in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance | the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication |
the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | a process involved in human language |
a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound | |
the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion | |
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | |
the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family | |