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Characteristics of Human
Language: Conventionality |
The idea words are conventionally
connected to the things for which they stand. |
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Characteristics of Human
Language: Productivity |
The idea that humans can combine
words and sounds into new meaningful utterances. |
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Characteristics of Human
Language: Displacement |
The human capacity to describe things
not happening in the present. |
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dialects
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Grammatical constructions used by the
socially dominant group are considered a language, and deviations from them are often called |
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Creole
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A first language that is composed
of elements of two or more different languages. |
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Pidgin
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A language of contact and trade
composed of features of the original languages of two or more societies. |
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The Chinese spoken and written dialect
called what? it was used only by women in the village of Jiang-yong in Hunan Province of South China. |
nushu
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Dialects may be both what?
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regional and social
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2 terms
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are far more common in
large-scale diverse societies than in small- scale homogenous ones. |
distinct dialects
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A dialect resulting from social
segregation. Carries the most social stigma . Both the dialect and the stigma surrounding the dialect are past from generation to generation |
Ebonics
part 1 |
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a dialect that appears to have
come from White Southern and Creole African-American English Vernacular (AAEV), also called has deep roots in the African-American community. |
Ebonics
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demonstrated that AAEV
was just a different way of speaking, and from a linguistic point of view, neither better nor worse than any other. |
William Labov
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descriptive or
structural linguistics. |
The study of the structure and content
of languages These linguists assume that language can be separated from other aspects of culture and studied outside of the social context in which speaking takes place. |
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symbols
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enable humans to transmit and
store information, a capacity which makes our cultures possible. Human language is a system of what |
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Universal Grammar
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purposed by Noam Chomsky
A basic set of principles, conditions, and rules that form the foundation of all languages |
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calls
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the system has up to sixty sounds.
Animal vocalizations are referred to this |
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Morphology
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Morphemes
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Descriptive Linguistics
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The part of anthropological linguistics
that focuses on the mechanics of language. |
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Syntax
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The manner in which minimum units of meaning (morphemes) are combined.
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Phonology
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The general study of the sounds used in human speech.
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Morpheme
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the smallest combination of sounds in human speech that carry a meaning.
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Phoneme
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the smallest unit of sound in speech that will indicate a difference in meaning.
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Sociolinguistics
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A subfield of linguistics that analyzes the
relationship between language and culture with a focus on how people speak in a social context. Specific ethnolinguistic study social situations and organizational context… |
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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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A hypothesis about the relationship between
language and culture that states that language constructs perceptions. |
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Ethnolinguistics
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A specialized field that analyzes the
relationship between a language and culture. |
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Historical Linguistics
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The study of the history of languages,
including their development and relationship to other languages. One way to study language change takes the form of looking at how the phonology of a language changes over time (i.e. shifts in vowel pronunciation). |
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