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| primary means of human communication, spoken and written |
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| communication systems of nonhuman primates |
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| transmission through learning, basic to language |
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| creating new expressions that are comprehensible to other speakers |
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| describing things and events that are not present; basic to language |
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| study of communication through body movements and facial expressions |
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| study of a language's phonemics and phonetics |
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| (linguistic) study of morphemes and word construction |
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| vocabulary; all the morphemes in a language and their meanings |
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| arrangement of words in phrases and sentences |
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| smallest sound contrast that distiguishes meaning |
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| study of speech sounds - what people actually say |
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| study of sound contrasts (phonemes) in a language |
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| idea that different languages produce different patterns of thought |
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| set of words describing particular domains (foci) of experience |
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| a language's meaning system |
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| study of lexical (vocabulary) categories and contrasts |
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| varying one's speech in different social contexts |
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| language with "high" (formal) and "low" (informal, familial) dialects |
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| terms of respect; used to honor people |
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| Black English Vernacular (BEV) |
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| rule-governed dialect spoken by some African Americans |
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| study of languages over time |
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| lagnuages sharing a common parent language, e.g., Latin |
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| language ancestral to several daughter languages |
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| (linguistic) closely related languages |
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