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| The act of transmitting information |
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| The form of communication among nonhuman primates composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment. |
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| The notion that, in human language, words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand. |
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| The ability of humans to combines words and sounds into new meaningful utterances. |
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| The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present. |
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| A group of people who share a set of norms and rules for the use of a language. |
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| A basic set of principles, conditions, and rules that underlie all languages. |
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| Descriptive or structural linguistics |
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| The study and analysis of the structure and content of particular languages. |
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| The sound system of a language. |
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| A system for creating words from sounds |
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| The part of grammar that has to do with the arrangement of words to form phrases and sentences. |
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| The subsystem of a language that relates words to meaning |
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| A sound made by humans and used in any language |
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| International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) |
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| A system of writing designed to represent all the sounds used in the different languages of the world. |
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| The smallest significant unit of sound in a language. A phonemic system is the sound system of a language. |
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| Standard Spoken American English (SSAE) |
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| The form of English spoken by most of the American middle class. |
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| Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language. |
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| The smallest unit of language that has a meaning |
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| A unit of meaning that must be associated with another. |
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| A unit of meaning that may stand alone as a word |
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| The smallest part of a sentence that can be said alone and still retain its meaning |
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| The total stock of words in a language |
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| A specialization within anthropological linguistics that focuses on speech performance. |
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| Grammatical constructions that deviate from those used by the socially dominant group in a society |
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| African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) or Ebonics |
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| A form of English spoken by many African-Americans, particularly among those of rural or urban working-class backgrounds. |
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| The ability of individuals who speak multiple languages to move seamlessly between them |
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| The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time, space, and matter are conditioned by the structure of a language |
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| The analysis and study of touch |
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| The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate |
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| The study of cultural use of interpersonal space |
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| The study of body positions, movement, facial expressions, and gaze. |
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| A language of contact and trade composed of features of the original languages of two or more societies. |
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| A first language that is composed of elements of two or more different languages |
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| The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families |
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| A statistical technique that linguists have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages. |
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