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| Is a structured system of symbols for communicating meaning |
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| Is the set of rules that specify how the units of language can be meaningfully combined |
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Individual units of sound that compose a specific spoken language
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| Is a part of grammar that describes the patterns of sound in a language |
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| Is the smalles unit of meaning in language |
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| Is the part of grammar that describes how morphemes are constructed |
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| Rules that govern combining words into phrases and phrases into sentences |
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| Is the set of rules that governs the meaning of words and sentences |
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| Are arbitrary representations of objects,events, ideas, or relationships |
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| The objects, events, ideas, or relationships referred to by the words |
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| Total vocabulary of a language |
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| Capacity of language to transform a small number of phonemes into whatever words, phrases, and sentences that you require to communicate your abundance of thoughts and feelings |
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| Ability to use language to talk about objects, ideas, events, and relations that don't just exist in the physical here and now |
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| Ability to use language to talk about language |
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| The process whereby we formulate increasingly vague conceptions of our world by leaving out details associated with objects, events, and ideas |
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| Verbal reports that sketch what we perceive from our senses |
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| Are conclusions about the unknown based on the known |
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| Subjective evaluations of objects, events or ideas |
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| Claim that we are either prisoners of our native language, unable to think certain thoughts or perceive in certain ways (linguistic determinism) or that our language powerfully influences but does not imprison our thinking and perceptions (linguistic relativity) |
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| Masculine-Generic Gender References |
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| Use of masculine nouns and pronouns to include references to both men and men |
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| Automatic, emotional response to a symbol |
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| Personal meaning, tge volatile, individual, subjective meaning of a word |
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| Shared meaning, objective meaning of words commonly agreed to by members of speech community and usually found in a dictionary |
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| Delayed, thoughtful response that seeks to decepher the user's intended meaning of a word, thus short-circuiting a behavioral response to the hair-trigger emotional reaction |
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| The influence wording has on our perception of choices |
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| Using either-or language to frame a choice as though only two opposing possibilities exist when at least a third option is clearing available |
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| A name or description word or phrase |
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| Grounds a label by specifying which measurable behaviors or experiences are subsumed under the label, and which are ruled out |
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| Refers to the practice of remaining stuch at one level of abstraction |
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| When you assume that everyone assigns the the same meaning to a word, without checking to see if it is true |
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| A mistaken conclustion that results from the assumption that inferences are factual desciptions of reality instead of interpretations of varying accuracy made by individuals |
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| Specialized Language of profession, trade, or group |
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| Form of linguistic novocain whereby word choices numb us to or camouflage unpleasant or offensive realities |
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| Highly informal words not in standard usage that are used by a group with a common interest |
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