AP Psych Language Flashcards
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8633402103 | language | spoken, written, or gestured work; the way we communicate meaning to ourselves and others. | 0 | |
8633404121 | phonetics | the study of human speech sounds | 1 | |
8633406031 | phonology | is the use of sound (pitch, tone, stress, volume, etc.) to convey meaning (ex.sarcasm) | 2 | |
8633410798 | IPA | international phonetic alphabet | 3 | |
8633455953 | grammar | is the system of rules in a language that enable us to communicate with and understand others. | 4 | |
8633458068 | semantics | set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences. | 5 | |
8633462542 | syntax | rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences (aka word order). | 6 | |
8633464232 | linguistic determinism | Whorf (1956) suggested that language determines the way we think. | 7 |