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| Black English Vernacular (BEV) |
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| A complex linguistic system with its own rules spoken by the majority of black youth in most parts of the United States today |
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| The natural communication systems of other primates |
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| Words and their meaningful parts |
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| Languages that descend from the same parent language and that have been changing separately for hundreds or even thousands of years |
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| The scientific study of a spoken language |
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| The phenomenon in which people regularly switch dialects |
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| The concept of talking about things or stimuli that are not present |
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| Specialized sets of terms and distinctions that are particularly important to certain groups |
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| Study of the long-term changes in language |
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| The study of communication through body movements, stances, gestures, and expressions |
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| A dictionary containing all a language's morphemes and their meanings |
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| The study of the forms in which sounds combine to form words and their meaningful parts |
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| A sound contrast that makes a difference that differentiates meaning |
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| The study of only the significant sound contrasts of a given language |
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| The study of speech sounds in general, what people actually say in various languages |
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| The study of speech sounds |
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| Use of rules of language to produce entirely new expressions that are comprehensible to other native speakers |
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| The original language from which Daughter Languages diverge |
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| The belief that different languages produce different ways of thinking rather than seeking universal linguistic structures and processes |
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| A language's meaning system |
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| A field that investigates relationships between social and linguistic variation |
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| Languages within a taxonomy of related languages that are most closely related |
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| The arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences |
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