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24 Cards in this Set
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Black English Vernacular (BEV) |
A Rule goverened dialect of American English with roots in southern |
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Call Systems |
Systems of communication amoung nonhuman primates, composed of a limitied number of sounds that vary in intensity and duration |
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Cultural transmission |
A basic feature of language; transmission through learning |
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Daughter Languages |
Languages developing out of the same parent language |
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Descriptive Linguistics |
The scientific study of a spoken language, including its phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax |
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Diglossia |
The existence of "high" and "low" dialects of a single language, such as German |
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Displacement |
A linguistic capacity that allows humans to speak of things and events that are not present. |
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Focal Vocabulary |
A set of words and distinctions that are particularly important to certain groups such as types of snow to Eskimos and skiers |
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Historical Linguistics |
Subdivision of linguistics that studies languages over time |
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Kinesics |
The study of communication through body movements, stances, gestures, and facial expressions |
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Lexicon |
Vocabulary, a dictionary contining all the morphemes in a language and their meaning. |
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Morphology |
The study of form; used in linguistics and for form in general-for example, biomorphology relates to physical form |
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Phoneme |
Significant sound contrast in a language that serves to distinguish meaning. |
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Phonemics |
The study of sound contrasts of a particular language. |
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Phonetics |
The study of speech sounds in general; what people actually say in various panguGes. |
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Phonology |
The study of sounds used in speech. |
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Productivity |
The ability to use the rules of one's language to create new expressions comprehensible to other peakers; basic feature of language |
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Protolanguage |
Language ancestral to several daughter languages |
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis |
Theory that different languages produce different ways of thinking |
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Semantics |
A language's meaning system |
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Sociolinguistics |
Study of relationships between social and linguistic variation; study of language in its social context |
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Style Shifts |
Variations in speech in different contexts |
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Subgroups |
Languages within a taxonomy of related languages that are most closely related |
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Syntax |
The arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences |
