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Linguistic Terms
Terms relating to Linguistics
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Language - English
7th Grade
03/20/2014

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  1. cognition
Definition

The act of understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.


Students could equate cognition to understanding.

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metacognition
Definition

 Thinking about one's own mental 

processes.

Students will use metacognition to help themselves be aware of what they understand.

Term
linguistics
Definition
The study of languages.
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sociolinguistics
Definition
The study of how language and society work together.
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semantics
Definition
The study of meaning.
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pragmatics
Definition
The relationship between words, symbols, and expressions.
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communication
Definition
Sharing thoughts, feelings, or ideas through speech, writing, or signs.
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lexicon
Definition
Example: There is a word in there that you might want to add to your lexicon . Lexicon standing for collection of words.
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descriptive grammar
Definition
Looking at how a language is actually used by its speakers and then make up rules about it.
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prescriptive grammar
Definition
A prescriptive grammar talks about rules and the structure of a language.
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Standard English
Definition
What most of us refer to as the correct and proper way to speak English. We expect that our students will use Standard English when speaking in the classroom.
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AAVE
Definition
Also known as "Black English"
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dialect
Definition
A type of a language that is specific to a certain region or social group. The dialect of the characters in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is different from the dialect of the characters in The Giver.
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register
Definition
A variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. For example, when speaking in a formal setting, an English speaker may be more likely to speak more formally then they would hanging out with their friends at the park.
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phoneme
Definition
an individual sound such as those which can be represented by these spellings: ck, s, ll, ea, j, and qu
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grapheme
Definition
Examples include letters, characters, numbers, punctuation marks, and other individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems.
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morpheme
Definition
Unbreakable" comprises three morphemes: un- (a bound morpheme signifying "not"), -break- (the root, a free morpheme), and -able (a free morpheme signifying "can be done").
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phonetics
Definition
the study of the sounds of speech
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phonology
Definition
the organization of sounds
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morphology
Definition
the study of the structure and content of word forms
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syntax
Definition
A student who is making a mistake with the order of adjectives and nouns is lacking understanding of this (i.e., student says "I live in the the house red" instead of "I live in the red house".)
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sound/symbol association
Definition
This is the knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letters and combinations of letters which represent those sounds.
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