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Communication - Answers -Behavior that affects the behavior of others by the
transmission of information.
Code - Answers -A complex pattern of associations of the units of a communication
System. In language those units could be sound units; meaningful units, such as words;
or meaningful units that are larger than words, such as phrases, clauses, and
sentences.
Grammar - Answers -The system of elements and the tules of phonology, morphology,
syntax, and semantics inherent in a language.
Phonological System - Answers -The grammar of sounds of that language.
Lexicon - Answers -A mental dictionary, the vocabulary that one has stored in the brain.
Morphological Rules - Answers -The rules used to construct words from their
component parts.
Syntax - Answers -The set of rules a person uses to form units of language larger than
words.
Semantics
Semantics - Answers -The study of meaning.
Linguistic Competence - Answers -The subconscious knowledge of language that
allows a speaker to create a potentially infinite number of messages.
Productivity - Answers -The ability to produce messages that one has never produced
before and to understand messages that one has never heard or seen before.
Linguistic Performance - Answers -The application of linguistic competence to actually
producing an utterance.
Redundancy - Answers -Occurs when the same message is encoded in different ways
and is simultaneously sent to the receiver of the message.
Openness - Answers -The ability to add new words, phrases, or other meaningful units
to a language.
, Displacement - Answers -The ability to communicate about things at times other than
the present and to communicate about things not directly in front of the sender and/or
receiver.
Prevarication - Answers -Refers to the ability to communicate about things that are not
verifiable, things for which there is no empirical proof.
Recursion - Answers -The process whereby any linguistic unit can be made longer by
embedding another unit in it.
Clever Hans Effect - Answers -The name given to the fact that a nonhuman's or
human's behavior might be influenced or directed by subtle and often unintentional cues
of others.
Broca's Area - Answers -Area of the brain that controls the larynx, lips, tongue, and
other areas of the digestive and respiratory systems involved with oral and facial fine
motor skills in the production of speech.
Wernicke's Area - Answers -One of the areas of the brain that is involved with the
comprehension of speech and the selection of lexical items.
Phonetics - Answers -The study of speech sounds: their physical properties, the way
they are received and decoded by the brain, and the way they are produced.
Vocal Folds - Answers -A muscular pair of elastic folds, which can be moved into
various degrees of openness.
Trachea - Answers -A tube that extends from the voice box to the lungs.
Larynx - Answers -The uppermost part of the trachea that contains the vocal chords or
folds and is one of the main sound producing organs.
Glottis - Answers -The space between the vocal folds
Pharynx - Answers -Throat
Alveolar Ridge - Answers -The hard ridge behind the upper front teeth.
Esophagus - Answers -A muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.
Hard palate - Answers -The bony section of the roof of the mouth.
Soft Palate - Answers -The back fleshy section of the rood of the mouth that is
moveable and closes off the nasal cavity during swallowing.
Voiced - Answers -Produced, in part, by the vibrations of the vocal folds.
LATEST UPDATED
Communication - Answers -Behavior that affects the behavior of others by the
transmission of information.
Code - Answers -A complex pattern of associations of the units of a communication
System. In language those units could be sound units; meaningful units, such as words;
or meaningful units that are larger than words, such as phrases, clauses, and
sentences.
Grammar - Answers -The system of elements and the tules of phonology, morphology,
syntax, and semantics inherent in a language.
Phonological System - Answers -The grammar of sounds of that language.
Lexicon - Answers -A mental dictionary, the vocabulary that one has stored in the brain.
Morphological Rules - Answers -The rules used to construct words from their
component parts.
Syntax - Answers -The set of rules a person uses to form units of language larger than
words.
Semantics
Semantics - Answers -The study of meaning.
Linguistic Competence - Answers -The subconscious knowledge of language that
allows a speaker to create a potentially infinite number of messages.
Productivity - Answers -The ability to produce messages that one has never produced
before and to understand messages that one has never heard or seen before.
Linguistic Performance - Answers -The application of linguistic competence to actually
producing an utterance.
Redundancy - Answers -Occurs when the same message is encoded in different ways
and is simultaneously sent to the receiver of the message.
Openness - Answers -The ability to add new words, phrases, or other meaningful units
to a language.
, Displacement - Answers -The ability to communicate about things at times other than
the present and to communicate about things not directly in front of the sender and/or
receiver.
Prevarication - Answers -Refers to the ability to communicate about things that are not
verifiable, things for which there is no empirical proof.
Recursion - Answers -The process whereby any linguistic unit can be made longer by
embedding another unit in it.
Clever Hans Effect - Answers -The name given to the fact that a nonhuman's or
human's behavior might be influenced or directed by subtle and often unintentional cues
of others.
Broca's Area - Answers -Area of the brain that controls the larynx, lips, tongue, and
other areas of the digestive and respiratory systems involved with oral and facial fine
motor skills in the production of speech.
Wernicke's Area - Answers -One of the areas of the brain that is involved with the
comprehension of speech and the selection of lexical items.
Phonetics - Answers -The study of speech sounds: their physical properties, the way
they are received and decoded by the brain, and the way they are produced.
Vocal Folds - Answers -A muscular pair of elastic folds, which can be moved into
various degrees of openness.
Trachea - Answers -A tube that extends from the voice box to the lungs.
Larynx - Answers -The uppermost part of the trachea that contains the vocal chords or
folds and is one of the main sound producing organs.
Glottis - Answers -The space between the vocal folds
Pharynx - Answers -Throat
Alveolar Ridge - Answers -The hard ridge behind the upper front teeth.
Esophagus - Answers -A muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.
Hard palate - Answers -The bony section of the roof of the mouth.
Soft Palate - Answers -The back fleshy section of the rood of the mouth that is
moveable and closes off the nasal cavity during swallowing.
Voiced - Answers -Produced, in part, by the vibrations of the vocal folds.
