Chapter 5

The function in which language plays

it is useful for sharing and passing our culture along.
Nonhuman communication

Sound, oder, and body movement
Open system

governed by a complex rules about how sounds can mean something.
closed system

different calls are not combined to produce new meaningful utteraances
phonology

the study of sound. ( not words )
morphology

study of words
syntax

study of sentences and paragraphs
morph

s makes it plural. ed makes it in the past
free

a solid single word
code switching

using more than one language in the course of conversing. ie spanglish
linguistic divergence

Those who lived together, split up each with a changed culture

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