Language / Linguistics
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- Ethnolinguistics
- the study of language as it relates to culture, frequintly associated with minority linguistic groups within the larger culture
- Scientific words
- words often in English and have Greek or Latin roots
- Psycholinguistics
- the study of language as it relates to the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to learn language
- simple sentence type
- single subject, or compound and a single predicate or a compound predicate
- Phonology
- analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect
- Keys to origin of words
- what words is derived from, parts (affixes, prefixes, and suffixes), compound words, slang that becomes common, Common words that become slang, Portmanteau words, Taboo words becoming euphemisms
- Pragmatics
- the role of contex in the interpretation of meaning
- Phonetics
- Study of the sounds of language and their physical properties
- Subdialects
- smaller variation of a spoken dilect by a large geographical region
- Sociolinguistics
- the study of language as it relates to society, including race, class, gender and age
- compound / complex sentence type
- two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
- compound sentence type
- two indepdendent clauses, clauses joined by a semicolon or by a comma and coordinating conjunction
- Dialect
- a variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area. It is s complete system of verbal and sometimes written communication with its own vocabulary and grammar.
- Etymology
- the study of the history and origin of words
- Romance langages
- French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
- Half the words in English
- words coming from common Anglo-Saxon roots and French or have a French cognate
- Anglo-Saxon
- dialect of West Germanic--from which English is derived
- complex sentence type
- one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
- cognate
- a word with a common origin
- Semantics
- the study of the meaning in Language
- Historical / Political influences on language acquisition
- experts view every langauge as a dialect of an older communication form. i.e. Romance languages are dialects of Latin, and English is thought to have two primary dilects, American English & British English
- Morphology
- the study of the structure of words
- Spanish language
- spanish words found in English, especially in southwestern U.S.
- Syntax
- the study of the structure of sentences