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Language

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a system of communication whereby speakers and hearers, using a set of internalized operations, can regulate sound and meaning

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Dialect

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a variation of a language used by a certain group-

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Register

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Styles of speech adjusted to the perceived needs of a speaker

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Idiolect

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Our individual way of speaking, which is comprised of many things, such as our speech’s fundamental frequency, pitch contour, vocabulary, transitions between sounds, and word pronunciations-