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| A branch of linguistics that studies the relationships between language and culture and how they mutually influence and inform each other |
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| The study of communication through body movements, gestures, stances, and facial expresses. |
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| The study of of the patterns or rules of word formation in a language (including such things as rules concerning verb tense, pluralization, and compound words). |
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| The smallest unit of sound that make a difference in meaning in a language. |
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| The notion that a person's language shapes her or his perceptions and veiw of the world. |
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| The practice of using different forms of language depending on the social situattion, |
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| Varying forms of a language that reflects particular regions or social classes and that are similar enough to be mutually intelligible. |
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| The systematic ways that sounds are combined in any given language to send and receive meaningful utterances |
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| Smallest units of sound that have meaning |
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| Variants of the same morpheme |
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| Pastoralist people of the Sudan |
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| Study of the basic building blocks of language and how they combined. |
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| The branch of anthropological linguistics that studies how language and culture is used in different social context. |
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| The patterns or rules by which words are arranged into phrases and sentences |
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| A dictionary containing all the morphemes and meaning within a language. |
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