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Basic Language Terms

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Compositionality

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The study of how organisms use various signs and signals to transmit information to one another.

Language Family

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The concept that human communication is the only type that is structured and meaningful, with the ability to be individually interpreted.

Proto-Language

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A complex and structured system that serves as a primary means of communication between humans.

Phoneme

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The earliest known ancestral language from which a group of other languages are believed to have descended.

Syntax

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A group of languages that are related through a common ‘parent’, or ancestral, language.

Biosometics

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A language that is still actively in use around the world, and is a part of the 6 Major Language Families.

Linguistic Universal

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Refers to the first language a person is exposed to, usually at birth, and therefore naturally acquires and learns throughout their cognitive development.

Morpheme

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A feature that occurs systemically between most natural languages.

Native Language

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The smallest unit of a language that can be used to distinguish one word from another.

Modern Language

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The most basic lexical unit of a language that can either stand alone, or be used to modify a word or message.

Language

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The branch of linguistics that deals with the arrangement of words and phrases to create recognizable sentences.