World Languages
A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
What is a dialect?
Speaking/listening, reading, writing, and signs.
What are the mediums of language?
A form of subconscious communication.
What is body language?
The study of sounds in language.
What is phonetics?
The study of word formation.
What is morphology?
The method of being fluent in two languages.
What is bilingualism?
The theory that states language came from humans imitating animals.
What is the bow-wow theory?
This animal's language comprehension is equivalent to a 2-year-old child.
What is a dog?
Different spots in the vocal tract where sounds are made.
What are places of articulation?
Morphemes that stand alone.
What are free morphemes?
The method of speaking only one language.
What is monolingualism?
These are Words made from putting two or more words together.
What are compound words?
60,000
What is the amount of words in the average high school graduate's vocabulary?
An alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?
Prepositions, articles, and conjunctions
What are grammatical morphemes?
When languages share similar grammar, share some words, or have the same sound systems.
What is a language family?
a symbolic system of signs and sounds used for communication.
What is language?
A method developed to teach people a second language, in which the language being taught is used specifically for instruction purposes.
What is language immersion?
What is the periodic table?
Unhelpfulness has _____ morphemes
What is four?
There are estimated to be this many languages
What is 6000
Mandarin Chinese
What is the most widely spoken language?
List three benefits of learning a second language.
What are...
The changing of the pitch to change the meaning of a sentence.
What is intonation?
A syllable is the same as a morpheme.