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17 Cards in this Set
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morphophonemic variation
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the variation in the form or sound of a morpheme (smallest unit in a language that bears meaning) according to different environments.
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relexification
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the view that when speakers of a language com into contact with a pidgin they can cause the pidgin to take on many words from their language.
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Language Bioprogram Hypothesis
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a view of universal language learning. all children are born with an innate program mand guide to develop a full language and that creoles are quite similar to one another around the world since children introduce similar elements to pidgins as they learn them as their first language
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pidgin
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simplified form of a language. when people who speak different languages come into contact with one another and have a limited number of concerns.
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Linguistic Relativity
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categories are unique to a language (time, place, validity, shapes, causality...)
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Linguistic Determinism
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we are at the mercy of our language, we can't experience in terms other than those in our first language
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Folk Taxonomy
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a way of classifying a certain part of reality (often flora and fauna), so that it makes some kind of sense to those who have to deal with it
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an ethnography of a communicative event
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a description of all teh factors that help to understand how a communicatie event works and how it achieves its outcomes. often this kind of study extends to examinations of what it takes to be communicatively competent in different communities
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communicative competence
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not just knowing what is grammatical but also appropriateness. what speakers of that language do wtih the language and how they do them
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ethnomethodology
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the processes and techniques that people use to interpret the world around them and to interact with that world
focus on the shared common sense knowledge speakers have of their society which tehy can leave unstate in convo b/c it is taken for granted |
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Linguistic competence
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idealized speaker outside of any contxt or distractions
it is theoretical by Norm Chomsky |
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Linguistic performance
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what you do when all teh factors are affecting you
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Langue
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overall system of a language shared by all speakers
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parole
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individual's use of language
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diachronic study of language
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historical-over a span of time
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synchronic study of language
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specific-one time
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observer's paradox
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what you want to observe is what is natural and this rarely works when someone knows you are observing them
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