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language and cognition quiz 2
vocab from the second section of Language and Cognition
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/05/2013

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broadcast transmission and directional reception
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signal travels in all directions
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rapid fading
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signals rapidly dissappear
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specialization
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amount of energy doesn't matter
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semanticity
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the signals mean something
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arbitrariness
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symbols are not connected to their meaning
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discreteness
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vocab is made of distinct parts
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duality of patterning
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combine meaningless units to create meaning
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interchangeability
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people can both speak and listen
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complete feedback
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speakers can access their product
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tradition
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can be taught and learned
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displacement
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can refer to things in remote time
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openness
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can invent new messages
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prevarication
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ability to lie
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reflectiveness
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can communicate about the system of communication
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learnability
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speaker of own language can learn another
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phonetics
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the acoustic properties of speech sounds (pitch, frequency, amplitude, intensity)
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phonology
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study of sounds in a language /k/ /t/
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bilobial
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sounds at the lips
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aveolar
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sounds at the aveola ridge
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