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Language, Thought, and Culture
Chapter 10- Ottenheimer
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 3
05/04/2011

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Language extinction:
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the situation in which there are no more speakers of a particular language
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Language revitalization:
Definition
the attempt to assist people in maintaining endangered languages
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Marked form:
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a linguistic form that is considered to be non-neutral in a language and that is derived from a neutral or base form
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Marking:
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the linguistic phenomenon of deriving a non-neutral form from a neutral form in a language, the phenomenon of linguistically tagging a word as non-neutral
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Unmarked form:
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a linguistic form that is considered to be a neutral or a base form in a language
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