Anthropology: Chapter 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 grammar | total system of linguistic knowledge that allows the speakers of language to send meaningful message and hears to understand them |
| dialect | a regional or subcultural variant of language |
| phonology | the study of the sound of system of a language |
| phoneme | the smallest unit of sound that speakers unconsciously recognize as distinctive from other sounds, when a phoneme is substituted for another in a morpheme, the meaning of the morpheme change |
| tone languages | languages in which changing the voice pitch with a word alters the meaning of the word |
| morphology | the study of the units of meaning in language |
| morpheme | a combination of phonemes that conveys a standard meaning |
| free morpheme | a morpheme that can stand alone as a word |
| bound morpheme | a morpheme that is attached to a free morpheme to alter its meaning |
| sociolinguistics | the subfield of cultural anthropology that studies how language is related to culture and the social uses of speech |
| semantic domain | a class of things or properties that are perceived as alike in some fundamental respect, hierachally organized |
| sapir-whory- hypothesis | the idea that language profoundly shapes the perception and world view of its speakers |
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