Basic Terms Flashcards
1
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Mental Lexicon
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The internalised knowledge native speakers (signers) have about the pronunciation, morphological structure, syntactic properties, and meaning of words.
This is part of the speakers linguistic knowledge.
2
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Orthography
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The written firm of the language
3
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Discrete ness
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Discrete linguistic units are combined together in rule governed ways to larger units
Discreteness is a characteristic of human language
See language hierarchy
4
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Meta linguistic awareness
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The ability to objectify language and dissect it as an arbitrary code independent of meaning.
