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Dialect correct answers a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group. Prescriptivism correct answers How language should be used/what is right or wrong depending on society norms descriptivism correct answers How language is used/describing what happens in language ex: saying gonna instead of going to Synchronic correct answers language at a particular time (present) diachronic correct answers the changes over time in language Political correctness correct answers Language reform, language can be used without discrimination Relationship between syntax and semantics correct answers Different syntactic constructions produce different meanings, Sometimes we can understand a non-grammatical utterance,Syntactic properties can't be determined based on meaning Active voice correct answers subject of sentence performs the action ex: ate, consumed Passive Voice correct answers subject receives the action ex: were devoured Transitivity correct answers whether or not a verb must take a direct object -who does what to whom/what grammatical correct answers syntactically well-formed ex: Sarah loves Francis ungrammatical correct answers syntactically ill-formed ex: loves sarah francis Grammaticality judgment correct answers decide whether a strong of words ry forms a sentence. Reflects the mental grammar ex: her eats the cake v. she eats the cake Word order correct answers how expressions are ordered with respect to another Agreement correct answers happens when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates