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Protolanguage
The tree of language and how languages have branched off from previous languages forming language families
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Pragmatics
A study of language that looks at how context affects meaning of language
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Lexicon
Words within a language
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William Jones
Noticed Latin and Greek came from Sanscrit
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Derivation
Forming a word from another word
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Saussure
- A father of linguistics
- Said language was arbitrary so all languages work in a similar way
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Niche Construction
When animal alters environment to make it livable
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Pidgin
A language that is used between two people that don't speak the same official language
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Neuronal recycling
Allows humans to acquire new information and adapt to evolving language
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Monogenesis
Theory that all humans are decedents from a single pair of ancestors
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Polygenesis
Theory that all humans come from multiple ancestors
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Semantics
Study of language that focuses on meanings
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Morphology
The study of how language has changed through the years
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Ethology
The study of animal behavior
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Archaeology of Cognition
The study of how ancestors thought based on archeological evidence
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Phonology
The study of the organization of sounds within language
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Syllable
Way of organizing sound patterns within a word
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Collocation
Words that can be replaced by another word that means the same thing
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Syntax
Arranging words and phrases to form sentences
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Cultural learning
How cultures pass down certain things such as language
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Acheulean technology
A stone tool technology found with homo erectus
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Altriciality
Needing to be nourished after birth
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