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| The mental representation of a speaker's linguistic competence what a speaker knows about a languge including its phonology, morphology, synatax, semantics and lexicon. |
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| The innate principles and properties that pertain to the grammers of all human language. |
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| The nouns, verbs, adj., and adverbs that constitute the major part of the vocabulary. |
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| A word that does not always have a clear lexical meaning but has a grammatical function, function words include conjunctions, prepositions, articles, auxiliaries, complementizers, and pronouns. |
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| Modeling grammers through the use of networks consisting of simple Neuton-like units connected in complex ways so that different connections vary in strenght, and can be strenghtened or weakened through exposure to linguistic data. |
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| See child-directed speech (CDS) |
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| The study of the stucture of words; the component of the grammer that includes the inventory of sounds (phonetic, phonoemic units)and rules for thier rules for their combination and pronounication, the study of the sound systems of all langauges. |
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| The study of linguistic speech sounds, how they are produced (articulatory phonetics), how they are perceived (auditiory or perceptual phonetics) and their physical aspects acoustic phonetics. |
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| The rules of sentence formation; the component of the mental grammer that represents speaker' knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences. |
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| The study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, pharses and sentences. |
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| The written form of a language |
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| Smallest unit of linguistic meaning or function, e.g. sheepdogs contains three morphemes, sheep and dog and the function morpheme for plural, s. |
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| A morpheme added to a stem or word, possibly, but not necessarily. Resulting in a change in synactic category, e.g. -er added to a verb like kick to give the noun kicker. |
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| A bound grammatical morpheme that is affixed to a word according to rules of syntax e.g. third-person singular verbal suffix-s |
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| Alternative phonetic form of a morpheme,e.g., the [-s] [z] and [ez] forms of plural morpheme in cats,dogs,kisses. |
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| A phonetic realization of a phoneme. |
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| A variety of a language whose grammer differs in systematic ways form other vareities. Differences may be lexical, phonological, syntactic, and semantic. |
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| An individual's way of speaking, reflecting that person's grammer. |
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| The phonology or pronunication of a specific regional dialect, e.g., French accent |
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| A geographic reange of slighty varying dialects occuring between two distinclty different dialects spoken in different regions of language area. |
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| A simple but rule-governed language developed for communication among speakers of mutually unintelligible languages, often based on one of those languages called the lexifier langauage. |
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| A language that begins as a pidgin and eventually becomes the native language of speech community. |
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| A stylistic variant of a language appropriate to a particular social setting. |
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| The specialized words used by a particular group such as pilots or linguistic. |
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| The process of the creation of a pidgin that involves a simplification of the grammers of the impinging languages and a reduction of the number of domains in which language is used. |
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| The linguistic expansion in the lexicon and grammer and an increase in the contexts of use, of an existing pidgin. |
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| A blend of gender and dialect |
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| Is the spread of certain Changes through an entire speech community. |
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| Are based on geographic region. |
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| First Language Acquisition (process) |
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The Perception and Production of speech sounds
Segmenting the Speech Stream
The Acquisiting of wording meaning
Acquisition of Morphology
Syntax
Pragmatics
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