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| a system that relates sound and meanings in an arbitrary fashion |
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| a system of linguistic elements and rules |
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| What we know when we know a language; the unconscious knowledge that a speaker of a language has about her or his native language |
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| the observable use of a language. The actualization of one's linguistic competence. Utterances of native speakers |
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| describing actual language use (rules) |
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| usage/social conventions/etiquette |
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| in relation to language, this term is used to refer to the fact that a word's meaning is not predictable form it's linguistic form, nor is it's form dictated by it's meaning |
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| speech sounds can be segmented into individual, identifiable pieces of sound that recur |
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| a study of how human beings produce sound |
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| two ways to classify vowels |
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| high and low; front and back |
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| three ways to classify consonants |
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| voicing, nasality, and manner of articulation or how the air flow is obstructive. |
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| what an outsider sees in a culture |
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| an insider's perspective- (the dumbest native speaker will know more than the most intelligent outsider) |
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| a sound that is unpredictable- it makes a difference in meaning (must be included in the alphabet) |
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| any sound that we can explain- a predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme. |
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| there is no acceptable definition |
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| the smallest phonological unit that recurs with constant meaning |
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| they are affixes and must be attached to free morphemes |
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| can be used by themselves |
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| tell the case, tense, spanish gender, and number |
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| change the meaning and syntactic class |
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| how do you decide what the phonemes are in a particular language? |
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1. describe suspicious pair
2. determine the environment
3. Form a hypothesis
4. test it out! |
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