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21 Cards in this Set
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Language is a basic human attribute |
Only human has language |
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All human societies |
Have spoken language |
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All human language are equal |
Same complex |
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Language is basically spoken |
All hearing kids acquire a spoken language if they are expose to it at an early age |
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Effability |
Everything is expressible in any language |
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All human language |
Change over time, systematic, alike in basic ways |
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Walking dancing |
Nature instinct. Culture. Learned |
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Most language knowledge js |
Unconscious |
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Componets of languages |
Sound: phonetics , Works and word structure: morphology and semantics Sentence structure: word order and syntax. |
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Semantics |
Meaning of complex structures |
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International phonetic alphabet |
Use to allow all sounds in all language to be written down in a common alphabet |
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Syntax |
How words are arranged into sentences |
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SOV |
Japanese. Korean. Turkish |
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SVO |
English. Chinese. |
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VSO |
Arabic. Hebrew |
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Lexical category |
Words are classified according to their. Such as noun. Verb. Adj |
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Indo-iranian |
Bengali. Sylheti. Punjabi urdu hindi persian |
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Slavic family |
Russian polish |
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Romance family |
French. Italian. Portuguese. Romanian spanish |
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Germanic family. |
English. Yiddish german |
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Semitic family |
Hebrew aramaic Haitian creole |
