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linguistic anthropology
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a scientific field in which anthropologists study language in its social and cultural context.
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historical linguistics
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a reconstruction of ancient language by comparing their contempary descendents
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language
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our primary means of communication spoken and written
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phonology
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the study of speech sounds, considers which sounds are present and significant in a language.
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morphology
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the study of the forms in which sounds combine to form
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lexicon
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a dictionary containing all its morphemes and their meanings
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syntax
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the arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences
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