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Spoken language

Index Spoken language

A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds, as opposed to a written language. [1]

22 relations: Body language, Clause, Consonant, Discourse, First language, Grammar, Language, Language acquisition, Linguistics, List of language disorders, Oralism, Origin of speech, Phoneme, Phrase, Prague linguistic circle, Prosody (linguistics), Sign language, Tone (linguistics), Vowel, Whistled language, Word, Written language.

Body language

Body language is a type of nonverbal communication in which physical behavior, as opposed to words, are used to express or convey information.

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Clause

In grammar, a clause is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition.

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Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.

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Discourse

Discourse (from Latin discursus, "running to and from") denotes written and spoken communications.

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First language

A first language, native language or mother/father/parent tongue (also known as arterial language or L1) is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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Grammar

In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Language acquisition

Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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List of language disorders

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Oralism

Oralism is the education of deaf students through oral language by using lip reading, speech, and mimicking the mouth shapes and breathing patterns of speech.

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Origin of speech

The origin of speech refers to the more general problem of the origin of language in the context of the physiological development of the human speech organs such as the tongue, lips and vocal organs used to produce phonological units in all human languages.

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Phoneme

A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.

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Phrase

In everyday speech, a phrase may be any group of words, often carrying a special idiomatic meaning; in this sense it is roughly synonymous with expression.

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Prague linguistic circle

The Prague school or Prague linguistic circle was an influential group of linguists, philologists and literary critics in Prague.

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Prosody (linguistics)

In linguistics, prosody is concerned with those elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but are properties of syllables and larger units of speech.

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Sign language

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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Vowel

A vowel is one of the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant.

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Whistled language

Whistled languages use whistling to emulate speech and facilitate communication.

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Word

In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning.

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Written language

A written language is the representation of a spoken or gestural language by means of a writing system.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken_language

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