| Term | Definition |
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| What is language? | a system for the communication, in symbols, of any kind of information which is influenced through age, gender, and economic status. |
| Why does Language change? | language changes because technology changes and its a need for coming up with new words and some words shift meaning |
| how many languages are there? | over 6000 languages which are organized in the same basic meaning. |
| Linguistic fieldwork | laptops and recorders are used to study language |
| descriptive linguistics | this is a branch of linguistics that involves unraveling at language through recording and describing all of its features |
| phonology | the study of language sounds |
| morphology | is the study of patterns or rules of word formation in a language |
| phonetics | is the study of the production, transmission, and reception of speech sounds |
| syntax | rules or principles of phrases and sentences |
| grammar | the formal structure of a language consisting of all observations |
| How does one study language? | isolate phonomes and determine all groups or combinations of sound and see how each pharse or sentence are put together |
| Historical linguistic | deals with the change of linguistic and investigate early forms of the language and it's formation to present day |
| glottochronology | a method for identifying the approximate time that a language branced off from the common ancestor |
| Linguistic Nationalism | the attempt by ethnic minorities to proclaim independence by purging their language of foreign terms |
| sociolinguistic | the relationship between language and it's society |
| gender speech | is a distinct female and male syntax exhibiting in various languages. For example in spanish a female will add -a at the end and male will add -e |
| dialects | various forms of a language that reflect particular regions or social classes |
| code switching | the process of changing from one language to another |
| ethnolinguistic | the study of the relation between language and culture |
| linguistic determinism | the idea that language to some extent shapes the way which we view and thinkg about the world around us |
| Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis | language is shaping process and it guides us to think and behavior that people use to see the world in a different perspective |
| Gesture Call System | consists of body motions used to convey messages including various voice qualities and vocalization |
| paralanguage | the extralinguistic noises that company a language, for exampe crying and laughing |
| origin of language one theory | early hominids began using gestures to communicate intentions within a social setting |
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