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186 A BASIC COURSE IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL. LINGUISTICS<br />

nucleus<br />

0<br />

obstruent<br />

onomas tics<br />

onset<br />

P<br />

palatalization<br />

parole<br />

perlocutionary act<br />

phatic function<br />

phoneme<br />

phonetics<br />

phonology<br />

phrase structure<br />

pictography<br />

poetic function<br />

po<strong>in</strong>t of articulation<br />

pragmatics<br />

prefix<br />

protolanguage<br />

R<br />

core of a syllable, usually a vowel.<br />

sound produced with a degree of obstruction.<br />

study of names.<br />

part that precedes a nuclear vowel.<br />

process by which a sound becomes a palatal,<br />

or more like a palatal.<br />

knowledge of how to use a language.<br />

speech act that entails request for some action:<br />

e.g., Can you call me?<br />

use of language to make or ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong> social<br />

contact: e.g., How S it go<strong>in</strong>g?<br />

m<strong>in</strong>imal unit of sound that dist<strong>in</strong>guishes<br />

mean<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

description of how sounds are articulated.<br />

sound system of a language.<br />

basic type of word arrangement <strong>in</strong> the<br />

construction of sentences.<br />

use of pictures to represent th<strong>in</strong>gs, ideas,<br />

actions, etc.<br />

language that aims to have an emotive effect.<br />

place <strong>in</strong> the mouth where a sound is articulated.<br />

study of discourse.<br />

affix that is added before another morpheme:<br />

e.g., the il- <strong>in</strong> illogical.<br />

an undocumented language that has been<br />

reconstructed.<br />

referent what a word refers to.

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