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8633402103languagespoken, written, or gestured work; the way we communicate meaning to ourselves and others.0
8633404121phoneticsthe study of human speech sounds1
8633406031phonologyis the use of sound (pitch, tone, stress, volume, etc.) to convey meaning (ex.sarcasm)2
8633410798IPAinternational phonetic alphabet3
8633455953grammaris the system of rules in a language that enable us to communicate with and understand others.4
8633458068semanticsset of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences.5
8633462542syntaxrules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences (aka word order).6
8633464232linguistic determinismWhorf (1956) suggested that language determines the way we think.7
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