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Vocabulary & Terminology Flashcards

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Linguistic Competence

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The system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language.

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Linguistic Performance

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The action of process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.

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Performance Error

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Deviation from the apparently intended form of an utterance (slip of the tongue)

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Speech Communication chain Steps

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  1. Noise 2. Speech Wave 3. Reception (Outer, Middle and Inner Ear) 4. Auditory Nerve 5. Speech Perception 6. Speech Understanding 7. Conscious 8. Production of Linusitc Structure 9. Production of Phetic CHaracteristics 10. Motor Command 11. Muscular Movement 12. Speech Proeduction 13. Auditory Feedback
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Noise

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A sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance

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Lexicon

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The vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge

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Mental Grammar

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A rom of internal linguistic knowledge which operates in the production and recognition of appropriately structured expressions in that language.

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Language Variation

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Variation is a characteristic of language, there is more than one way of saying the same thing.

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Descriptive Grammar

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A set of rules about language based on how it is actually used.

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Evidence that Writing and Language are not the same

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  1. People have been speaking for thousands of years.
  2. Writing makes a language
  3. Language evolves
  4. small languages, usually unwritten, tend to be systematically more complex in ways rather than big languages.
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Reasons some people believe writing to be superior to speech

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  1. Writing is a skill that needs to be learned.
  2. Speaking comes naturally especially at a young age.
  3. In higher statuses are a need
  4. By talking to someone, shows how intelligent they are.
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Prescriptive Grammar

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A set of explicit rules for using language that are taught, or enforced.

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Prescribe

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3rd person present

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Charles Hockett’s Nine Design Features

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  1. Mode of communication
  2. Semanticity
  3. Pragmatic Function
  4. Interchangeability
  5. Cultural Transmission
  6. Arbitrariness
  7. Discreetness
  8. Displacement
  9. Productivity
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Mode of Communication

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A manner or a way of doing. (Evolved)

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Semanticity

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the quality that a linguistic system has of being able to convey meanings, in particular by reference to the world of physical reality.

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Pragmatic Function

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General heading under which terminology relating to the various areas of study of language use and interpretation is collected.

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Interchangeability

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Capable of being put or used in the place of each other.

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Cultural Transmission

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The way a group of people or animals within a society or culture tend to learn and pass on information.

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Arbitrariness

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Quality of being “determined by chance, when, or impulse, and not by necessity reason, or principle.”

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Linguistic Sign

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Asymmetrical dualism

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Convention

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A way in which something is usually done, especially within particular area or activity

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Nonarbitrariness

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Subject to individual will or judgement without restriction.

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Iconic

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Relating to or of the nature of an icon.

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Onomatopoeia

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

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Convetionalized

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A conventional usage, practice or thing

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Sound Symbolism

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The partial reperstation of the sense of a word by its sound, as in bang, fizz, and slide

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Discreteness

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A state of being kept distinct

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Displacement

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The moving of something from its place or position

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Porductivity

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A state or quality of producing something, especially crops.

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Modality

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A particular mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed.

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Myths about Sign Languages

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  1. All deaf people sign
  2. Sign is iconic
  3. Sign is universal
  4. Sign is a visual form of English
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Differences between codes and Languages

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  1. Code is more schematic
  2. Strict
  3. Expectations
  4. Code is more strategy

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