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Anthro 1010 Vocab
Chapter 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Kinesics | The study of communication by nonvocal means, including posture, mannerisms, body movement, facial expressions, and signs and gestures |
| Paralanguage | Refers to all the optional vocal features or silences apart from the language itself itself that communicate meaning |
| Accents | Differences in pronunciation characteristic of a group |
| Symbolic Communication | An Arbitrary gesture, call, word, or sentence that has meaning even when the referent is not present |
| Phonology | The study of the sounds in a language and how they are used |
| Morphology | The study of how sound sequences convey meaning |
| Syntax | The ways in which words are arranged to form phrases and sentences |
| Phone | A speech sound in a language |
| Phoneme | A sound or set of sounds that makes a difference in meaning to the speakers of the language |
| Morph | The smallest unit of a language that has meaning |
| Morpheme | One or more morphs with the same meaning |
| Historical Linguistics | The study of how languages change over time |
| Protolanguage | A hypothesized ancestral language from which two or more languages seem to have derived |
| Cognates | Words or morphs that belong to different languages but have similar sounds and meanings |
| Dialects | A variety of a language spoken in a particular area or by a particular social group |
| Code switching | Using more than one language in the course of conversing |
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