Evie Ferguson's Unit 3 Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. the study of language as it functions in society; the study of the interaction between linguistic and social variables.
  2. 7. Multi-Media Ability, Arbitrariness, Discreteness, Displacement & Productivity
  3. 9. the study of the rules and patterns by which sentences and phrases are formed in a language
  4. 12. the smallest unit of sound in a spoken language that can change the meaning of a word
  5. 14. the shared set of beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and physical or symbolic artifacts that a social group learns, practices, and passes down from one generation to the next
  6. 15. a small unit of language with meaning that cannot stand alone as an independent word
  7. 16. an area of meaning and the group of words used to talk about it
  8. 18. the smallest unit of meaning in a language, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts
  9. 19. the study of forms and structure in language
  10. 20. a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, shaped by a speaker's region, social background, or native language
  11. 21. a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor
Down
  1. 1. the system of rules that governs how a language is structured, spoken, and written
  2. 2. a specific variety of a language spoken by a group of people in a particular region or social class
  3. 3. specialized vocabulary, technical terms, or shorthand expressions used by a particular profession, trade, or social group
  4. 4. the proposal that the structure of a language influences or determines how its speakers think, perceive, and experience the world
  5. 6. informal words, phrases, and expressions that people use in everyday speech rather than in formal writing or official conversation
  6. 8. the practice of alternating between two or more languages, dialects, or communication styles depending on the social setting, conversation partner, or cultural context
  7. 10. the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation
  8. 11. the complete stock of words, phrases, and lexemes in a language, a specific subject area, or an individual's personal vocabulary
  9. 13. the smallest unit of language with meaning that can stand alone as an independent word
  10. 17. system of communication using speech, signs, or written symbols governed by grammar and vocabulary