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| A systematic communication using sounds or gestures that are put together in meaningful ways according to a set of rules. |
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| An instinctive sound or gesture that has a natural or self-evident meaning. |
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| The modern scientific study of all aspects of language. |
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| The systematic identification and description of distinctive speech sounds in a language. |
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| The study of language sounds. |
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| The smallest units of sound that make a difference in meaning in a language. |
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| The study of patterns or rules of word formation in a language (including such things as rules concerning verb tense, pluralization, and compound words). |
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| The smallest units of sound that carry a meaning in language. They are distinct from phonemes, which can alter meaning but have no meaning themselves. |
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| The patterns or rules by which words are arranged into phrases and sentences. |
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| The entire formal structure of a language, including morphology and syntax. |
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| A group of languages descended form a since ancestral language. |
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| The development of different languages from a single ancestral language. |
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| In linguistics, a method for identifying the approximate time that languages branched off from a common ancestor; based on analyzing core vocabularies. |
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| The most basic and long-lasting words in any language- pronouns, lower numerals, and names for body parts and natural objects. |
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| The attempt by ethnic minorities and even countries to proclaim independence by purging their language of foreign terms. |
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| The attempt by ethnic minorities and even countries to proclaim independence by purging their language of foreign terms. |
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| The study of the relationship between language and society through examining how social categories (such as age, gender, ethnicity, religion, occupation, and class) influence the use and significance of distinctive styles of speech. |
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| Distinct male and female speech patterns. which vary across social and cultural settings. |
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| Varying forms of a language that reflect particular regions, occupations, or social classes and that are similar enough to be mutually intelligible. |
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| Changing from one mode of speech to another as the situation demands, whether form one language to another or from one dialect of a language to another. |
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| A branch of linguistics that studies the relationships between language and culture and how they mutually influence each other. |
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| The idea that distinctions encoded in one language are unique to that language. |
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| The idea that language to some extent shapes the way in which we view and think about the world around us. |
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| Facial expressions and body postures and motions that convey intended as well as subconscious messages. |
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| A system of notating and analyzing postures, facial expressions, and body motions that convey messages. |
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| The cross-cultural study of people's perception and use of space. |
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| Voice effects that accompany language and convey meaning. These include vocalizations such as giggling, groaning, or sighing, as well as voice qualities such as pitch and tempo. |
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| A language in which the sound of pitch of a spoken word is an essential part of its pronunciation and meaning. |
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| An exchange of whistled words using a phonetic emulation of the sounds produced in spoken voice; also known as whistled language. |
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| Reffering to things and events removed in time and space. |
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| A set of visible tactile signs used to represent units of language in a systematic way. |
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| A series of symbols representing the sounds of a language arranged in a traditional order. |
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