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Lexicon |
The vocabulary of a particular language, field, social class, person, ect. |
The Vocabulary of a social class. |
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Grammar |
The study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; Morphology, syntax |
The study, sentences, constructed; Morphology, syntax |
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Syntax |
The study of the rules for the formation of a grammatical sentence in a language |
The study, rules, formation, sentence, language. |
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Phonology |
The study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and tacit rules governing pronunciation. |
Speech sounds, pronunciation. |
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Linguistic Relativism |
The proposition that different languages encode different catagories, and that speakers of different languages therefore think about the world in different ways. |
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Onomatopoeia |
The formation of a word as cuckoo, meow, honk or boom, by immitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
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Independent Clause |
A clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a verb. |
A complete sentence |
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Dependant clause |
A group of words with a subject and a verb. It does not express a complete thought so it is not a sentence and can't stand alone. |
An incomplete sentence |
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Linguistic Determinism |
The proposition that the language we speak establishes how we percieve the world. |
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Semantics |
The meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc. |
Word, sign, sentence, etc. |
