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32 Cards in this Set
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Language |
Primary means of human communication |
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Call systems |
Communication systems of nonhuman primates |
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Cultural Transmission |
Transmission through learning basic to language |
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Productivity |
Creating new expressions that are comprehensible to other speakers |
It creates new products in languages |
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Displacement |
Describing things and events that are not present basic to language |
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Kinetics |
Study of communication through body movement and facial expressions |
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Phonology |
Study of speech sounds |
Most basic study of human language |
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Morphology |
Studies how sounds combine to form morephemes or also called words. |
Sounds morph into words |
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Lexicon |
Vocabulary all the lorphemes in a language |
Lex |
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Syntax |
Arrangement of words in phrases and sentences |
Yoda speaking |
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Phoneme |
Smallest sound contrast that distinguishes meaning |
B at v at in English h and v are phonemes |
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Allophone |
Variation of a phoneme |
Tea and eight. Sound of the t. |
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Morpheme |
Smallest identifiable combination of sounds to convey meaning |
Letters morph into words |
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Universal Grammer |
Developed by Noam Chomsky this theory states that all humans have the same capacity for language and that languages fit and that all languages fit a defined set of rules. |
It is universal |
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Universal expeession |
A smile is a universal expression |
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Paralingustics |
The variety of sounds that are not words which convey meaning |
Pitch, laughing crying |
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Pidgin |
A composite language used primarily for trade but not a real languave |
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Creole |
A stable natural language that develops frm a pidgin |
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Language |
Mutually unintelligible |
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Dialect |
A regional social variations of a language distinguished by vocabulary tones ext. |
Southern accents |
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Loan Language |
Orgins of English |
English is a loan Language that borrows from other languages used "loan words" or words from other languages that are not translated |
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Sociolingustics |
Study of how languages effect social and cultural behavior |
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Style shift |
Variation in speech pattern depending upon when one is speaking to include pitch and lexicon |
The style of my language is different with frienda |
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Code switching |
Use of different languages when speaking to different people often one language is associated with a lower status |
You can not get into the managers office until you have the right "code" |
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Diglossia |
Having two distinct dialects used by a snake group most commonly high and low |
You can dig into your language |
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The Sapr Whorf hypothesis |
A language shapes the way it's speaker views the world |
Sapr Whorf designed this hypothesis |
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Focal vocabulary |
Specialized sets of terms and distinctions that are particularly important to certain groups |
Tweet text email |
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Black Enlgihlsh Venicular |
Rule governed dialect spoken by some African Americans |
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Historical linguistics |
Study of languages over time |
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Daughter language |
Languages sharing a comment parent language |
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Proto language |
Language ancestral to several daughter languages |
Prototype |
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Subgroup |
Closely related languages |
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