Language+Terms

= Language Terms =

**Bilingualism ** -The ability to speak 2 languages and the frequent use of two languages.

 * [|Information of Bilingualism] from the Linguistics Society of America.

====(**Multilingualism ** would be the ability and frequent use of multiple languages - more than 2: [|Information on Multilingualism])====

**Code Switching** - is the concurrent use of more than one language, or language variety, in conversation.

 * [|Information of Code Switching]: This page includes the Encyclopedia explanation, as well as information of the different types of switching and the motivations for switching.

**Cognates** - related by decent from an ancestral language.

 * [[file:cognate assignment chart.docx]]: This chart includes several common cognates between Spanish and English.

===Dialect - A regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation from other regional varieties.===


 * [|The International Dialects of English Archive]: This page contains information on and recordings of the different dialects of English from all over the world. You can choose a country from the list on the right side of the page and then a region from the list on the next page, etc. If you choose North America you will be given a list of each state to choose from.

===**Grammar** - the structure and system of a language, or of languages in general, usually considered to consist of syntax and morphology.===


 * [|Grammar Help for EFL/ESL students]

**Language ** - the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community.

 * [|GOOGLE Translate]

**Morphemes** - the most elemental unit of grammatical form

 * Interesting introduction to and lesson on [|Morphemes], including examples.

**Morphology** - The study of the internal structure of words, and of the rules by which words are formed

 * More information on [|Morphology and Morphemes]

**Phonemes** - the basic form of a sound. This is sensed in your mind rather than spoken or heard.

 * Fun Practice with [|Phonemes]

===**Phonetics ** - (1) the system of speech sounds of a language or group of languages. (2) //a// **:** the study and systematic classification of the sounds made in spoken utterance //b// **:** the practical application of this science to language study. ===


 * [|The International Phonetic Alphabet]

Phonology - the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural languages.

 * More information on [|Phonology]

===**Slang ** - the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language.===


 * A [|dictionary of slang, webspeak, made up words, and colloquialisms.]

**Syntax ** - the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or clauses)

 * More information on [|Syntax]

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