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british linguist

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mark halliday

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describes the way children use language

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halliday’s model of language function

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refers when language is used to fulfill a need such as requiring food, drink, or comfort.

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instrumental

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language used to influence the behavior of others. Concerned with persuading, commanding, and requesting other people to do things you want.

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regulatory

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language used to develop social relationship and get along with others.

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interactional

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expresses individual identity and personal feelings.

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personal

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function that is use for seeking and learning, using language to explore environment and a way of learning about things.

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heuristic

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A function that we use in creating stories, games and new words as well as in Linguistics play including poems, rhymes and riddles.

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imaginative

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a function of communicating information, conveying a message with specific reference to the process, persons, objects, abstractions, qualities, states and relations of the real world around.

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representational

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occurs as a vocal type of
communication, which is perceived by hearing. The basic mode of communication by the vast majority makes use of sounds, secondary to which is writing.

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vocal auditory channel

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when a person stands in the middle of a room, he can be heard by everyone, assuming that he is speaking loudly enough and can be perceived in limited directions

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broadcast transmission and directional reception

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speech waveforms fade rapidly which is why the human language signal does not persist over time and may be possible when audio recorded or video recording or writing the message is done

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rapid fading (transitoriness)

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the speaker can receive and send the same language signal.

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interchangeability

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unlike traffic signs which cannot monitor its function, we can hear ourselves while we speak

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total feedback

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each organ has its own specific function in speech.

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specialization

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for every signal there is a corresponding meaning

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semanticity

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Human language is arbitrary, meaning, there is no necessary connection to the form and the thing assigned to.

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arbitrariness

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basic speech units can be categorized.
There is no gradual continuous shading from one sound to another in the linguistics system, although there may be a continuum in the real physical world.

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discreteness

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sometimes we speak about things in the past or future, and our language allows us to do so.

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displacement

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We can create never-before- heard utterances.

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productivity

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requires effort because human language is not inborn.

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traditional transmission

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It is the ability to recombine small units in different orders.

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the duality of patterning

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Their manner of communication affects the behavior of the receiver and the sender of the information or message.

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non human communication

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used to send information from one member to another by producing a sound.

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auditory communication

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This form of communication is widely used in the animal kingdom.

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auditory communication

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This form of communication is widely used in the animal kingdom.

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auditory communication

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This communication in animals is based on visible signals.

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visual communication

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it is the most commonly used visual communication for animals.

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gestures and postures

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This communication is said to be the most common form of animal communication.

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tactile communication

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called a common form of animal communication due to mating reasons.

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tactile communication

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form of animal communication where the animals leave behind pheromones in the environment for different reasons.

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chemical communication

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are the chemical substances produced and released by animals that affect the behavior or psychology of other animals of their own species.

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pheromones

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She could communicate to the researchers or lab assistants to do things for her such as adding food on her plate or request some items to be brought to her.

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the lana project

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was able to arbitrarily combine signs spontaneously and creatively.

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the washoe project

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use of signs indicated that she mastered the use of sign language.

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the koko project

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in semiotic sense takes the form of words, images, sounds, gestures, acts or objects

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sign

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is a sign which is usually an association of general ideas

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symbol

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an English philosopher, regarded semiotics as the key to the evolution of human consciousness. he further espoused that language began with signs, that are signs and dyadic meaning a signature is tied to a specific meaning

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john locke

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For one to understand signs, there must be intelligence capable enough to learn from experience. His concept of semiotics was triadic: sign, meaning, and interpreter.

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charles sanders pierce

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Semiotics was founded by a Swiss linguist

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ferdinand de saussure

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Human language is not a function of the speaker, rather, it is a product that is passively assimilated by individuals.

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ferdinand de saussure

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how it is represented

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meaning

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what is represented

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signs

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how it is interpreted

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interpreter

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makes the use of the hands, facial expression and other gestures usually used by deaf or the hearing-impaired individuals

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sign language

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spelling words in signs may be done using this strategy

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fingerspelling

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used to emphasize specific words

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fingerspelling

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can help us communicate things through visual, unspoken, and spoken

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semiotics

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includes humor

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puns

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figure of speech used for comparing, saying one thing is another thing

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metaphors

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relationship between texts, if there are hidden meanings or not

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intertextualities

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similarities or commonalities present in different culture from different regions of different countries

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cultural commonalities

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every sound that lives or exist in nature are what this theory suggests the origin of language is

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bow wow theory

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this theory suggests that the origin of language started from the sounds that our ancestors makes when they instinctively reacted to something, those involuntary vocalizations to express their emotions and intentions

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pooh pooh theory

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this theory suggests an idea that humans made sound symbolism

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Ding dong theory

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it proposes the language evolved from the grunts, and snorts evoke by physical labor

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yo he ho theory

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romantic side of human life the sole factor that is responsible for the creation of language

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la la theory

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our human ancestors developed the ability to speak and understand language

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genetic mutation by noam chomsky

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this theory is based on the notion that people need to find a more efficient form of grooming as communities began to grow larger

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vocal grooming of rubin donbar

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anthropologist dean falk suggests that as early humans lost their fur, it became difficult for mothers to carry their babies on their backs as they gathered food and foraged

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putting the baby down a hypothesis by dean falk

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human speech is anchored on the natural sound of human cries

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whitney’s origin of language

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a psychologist believed that social interactions between and among people are a key element in acquiring knowledge, just like how a child watches and learns from adults

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ley vygotsky theory

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contends that when children are born they have an embedded basic structure for cognition as well as for language

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piaget’s theory

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known for his language acquisition device or LAD which is a built in box in the brain responsible for creating and learning the language

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noam chomsky theory