Chapter 4 Vocab

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Proto-language

A hypothetical common ancestral language of two or more living languages.

Creole language

A language of mixed origin that has developed from a complex blending of two parent languages that exists as a mother tongue for some part of population.

Pidgin language

A mixed language with a simplified grammar, typically borrowing its vocabulary from one language but its grammer from another.

Language

A system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and Grammer.

Patterned sounds or utterances that express meaning.

Call systems

Words in two languages that show the same systematic sound shifts as other words in the two language, usually interpreted by linguist as evidence for a common linguistic ancestry.

Cognate words

Philology

Comparative study of ancient texts and documents.

A language of mixed origin that has developed from a complex blending of two parent languages that exists as a mother tongue for some part of population.

Creole language

The systematic analysis and description of a language's sound system and grammer.

Descriptive linguistics

The study of how people classify things in the world, usually considering some range or set of meaning.

Ethnoscience

A system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and Grammer.

Language

Widespread assumption that people make about the relative sophistication and status of particular dialects and language.

Language ideology

The idea that people speaking different languages perceive or interpret the world differently because of difference in their languages.

Linguistic relativity

The structure of words and word formation in a language.

Morphology

Syntax

Pattern of word order used to form sentences and longer utterances in a language

Call systems

Patterned sounds or utterances that express meaning.

Comparative study of ancient texts and documents.

Philology

The systematic patterns of sounds in a language, also known as the language's sound system.

Phonology

A mixed language with a simplified grammar, typically borrowing its vocabulary from one language but its grammer from another.

Pidgin language

A hypothetical common ancestral language of two or more living languages.

Proto-language

The study of how socipcultrual context and norms shape language use and effects of the language use on the society.

Sociolinguistics

Stops

Sounds that are formed by closing of and reopening the oak cavity so that it stops the flow of air through the mouth such constants p, b, t, d, and g.

Sounds that are formed by closing of and reopening the oak cavity so that it stops the flow of air through the mouth such constants p, b, t, d, and g.

Stops

Pattern of word order used to form sentences and longer utterances in a language

Syntax

Linguistic relativity

The idea that people speaking different languages perceive or interpret the world differently because of difference in their languages.

Morphology

The structure of words and word formation in a language.

Ethnoscience

The study of how people classify things in the world, usually considering some range or set of meaning.

Sociolinguistics

The study of how socipcultrual context and norms shape language use and effects of the language use on the society.

Descriptive linguistics

The systematic analysis and description of a language's sound system and grammer.

Phonology

The systematic patterns of sounds in a language, also known as the language's sound system.

Language ideology

Widespread assumption that people make about the relative sophistication and status of particular dialects and language.

Cognate words

Words in two languages that show the same systematic sound shifts as other words in the two language, usually interpreted by linguist as evidence for a common linguistic ancestry.


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