3.10: Chapter 3: Language Study Guide

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Language

Use this study guide as you read the selected chapter, to help you focus on the important terms, concepts, people and places. This will also help you prepare for the quiz on this chapter.

Arbitrariness
Bound morpheme
Closed system
Code-switching
Colonialism
Creole
Critical age range hypothesis
Design features
Dialect
Discreteness
Displacement
Duality of patterning
Gendered speech patterns
Gesture-call system
Historical linguistics
Kinesics Lakoff
Language as a marker of solidarity
Language shift
Language universals
Lexicon
Linguistic relativity
Middle English
Modern English
Morphemes
Old English
Open system
Oralist approach
Palate
Paralanguage
Pharynx
Phoneme
Phonology
Pidgin
Pragmatic function
Pragmatics

Chapter 3: Language Study Guide. Provided by: Pima Community College. Located at: http://cc.pima.edu/~lumen/ant112/Modules/CH3%20SG.htm. License: CC BY: Attribution