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Chapter One Test

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Sign Languages
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Descriptive Grammar
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Linguistic Competence
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Prescriptive Grammar
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arbitrary
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Linguistic Performance
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Grammar
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Prestige Dialect
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Phonology
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The languages used by deaf people in which linguistic units such as morphemes and words as well as grammatical relations are formed by manual and other body movements.
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That variety of the language spoken by people in positions of power.
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How we use our knowledge in actual speech production and comprehension.
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The sound system of a language; the component of a grammar that includes the inventory of sounds and rules for their combination and pronunciation; the study of sound systems of all languages.
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What we know about our language.
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There is no natural relationship between the way a word is pronounced (or signed) and its meaning.
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The mental representation of a speaker.
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When grammar is 'perscribed', rather than 'described'.
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A linguist's description or model of the mental grammar, including the units,structures, and rules. An explicit statement of what speakers know about their language.
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The claim that the structure of a language influences how its speakers perceive the world around them.
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The study of the linguistic meaning of morphems, words, phrases, and sentences. Assigning meaning to words.
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The study of the structure of words; the component of the grammar that includes the rules of word formations.
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(UG) The innate principles and properties that pertain to the grammars of all human languages.
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Weaker form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Different languages encode different catagories therefore speakers of different languages think about the world in different ways.
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The rules of sentence formation; the ecomponent of the mental grammar that represents speakers' knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences.
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Words whose promumciation suggests the meaning.
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A speaker's mental dictionary of morphems and words.
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Strongest form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. The language we speak determines how we perceive and think about the world (False).
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Words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

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