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Chapter 3 Cul Ant
Cultural Anthropology
Question | Answer |
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accent | Differences in pronunciation of a group. |
codeswitching | Using more that one language in the course of conversing. |
core vocabulary | Nonspecialist vocabulary. |
dialects | A variety of a language spoken in a particular area or by a particular social group. |
lexical content | Vocabulary or lexicon. |
lexicon | The words and morphs, and their meanings, of a language; approximated by a dictionary. |
morph | The smallest unit of a language that has a meaning. |
morpheme | One or more morphs with the same meaning. |
morphology | The study of how sound sequences convey meaning. |
phones | 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. |
phonology | The study of the sounds in a language and how they are used. |
protolanguage | A hypothesized ancestral language from which two or more languages seem to have derived. |
syntax | The ways in which words are arranged to form phrases and sentences. |
symbolic communication | An arbitrary (not obviously meaningful) gesture, call, word, or sentence that has meaning even when its referent is not present. |