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Hockett’s features or characteristics that are common to all languages are called

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linguistic universals

2
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Stating that language has the property of arbitrariness is to claim that

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there is no inherent connection between the units used in language and their meaning

3
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When investigating language, the internalized knowledge of language and its rules that fully fluent speakers of a language have is referred to as

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articulation
processing fluency
competence

4
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The ___________ hypothesis states that the language we know shapes the way we think about events in the world around us.

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Sapir-Whorf

5
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The basic sound that composes a language is called the _______; the ________ is the smallest unit of language that has meaning.

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phoneme; morpheme

6
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Our ability to detect variations in speech sounds despite co-articulation and from speaker to speaker reflects

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the problem of invariance

7
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Patients with Wernicke’s Aphasia have trouble with speech _________; conversely, patients with Broca’s aphasia have difficulties in speech __________.

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comprehension; production

8
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This term refers to the idea that many words in a language may have multiple meanings

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polysemy

9
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Irregularities or errors in otherwise fluent speech are called

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dysfluencies

10
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The arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship to one another is called

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syntax