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38 Cards in this Set
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- Back
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Gorilla sign language is different than American Sign Language because...
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Gorillas are not physically equipped to communicate in American Sign Language
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Strong Eye and Hand?
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Yes
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Strong Mouth and Eye?
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No
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Large storage capacity?
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Yes
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An ability to read minds?
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Yes
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Human linguistic signs are
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social signs
arbitrary created and learned through community interaction |
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Linguistic performance is
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inferior to competence
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You linguistic competence is
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knowledge
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Your linguistic performance is
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behavior
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Word meanings in language are
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concepts and
auditory and visual images |
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Gorilla sign language is different than American Sign Language because...
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Gorillas are not physically equipped to communicate in American Sign Language
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Strong Eye and Hand?
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Yes
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Strong Mouth and Eye?
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No
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Large storage capacity?
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Yes
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An ability to read minds?
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Yes
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Human linguistic signs are
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social signs
arbitrary created and learned through community interaction |
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Linguistic performance is
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inferior to competence
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You linguistic competence is
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knowledge
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Your linguistic performance is
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behavior
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Word meanings in language are
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concepts and
auditory and visual images |
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the connection between word forms and their meanings is arbitrary because...
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members of speech communities arrive at meanings by a social process of TACIT NEGOTIATION
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Granularity -
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Having more words to describe a certain language set. (More words for animals here in Cache Valley)
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Absolutely essential part of the human body for language -
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Brain
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Infolding of the brain increases the
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brain's surface area
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the increase in surface area of the brain -
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increases the brain's processing capacity
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Words -
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easily retrieved from memory
and are available to our consciousness |
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Words -
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are consciously available to the language user
are arbitrary signs CAN be cited can be composed of smaller meaningful parts |
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Phonological -
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pronunciation of the word
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Semantic -
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Definition of the word
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Morphological -
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related words
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Syntactic -
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Part of speech.
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Morphemes -
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Do not contain smaller meaningful parts. (minimum part of word)
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Infix -
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Inside root
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prefix -
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before root
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suffix
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after root
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Inflectional -
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tense
how many location possession person |
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Derivational -
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Everything else
making a word negative adding a lexical type meaning changing its grammatical category |
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Circumfix -
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before and after root
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