Human Growth and Development / Unit 3 HGD 0361 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Language Is
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The idea
Language is a communication system of words and rules, with infinite generativity; productive language is speaking or signing, receptive language is understanding.
In practice
English's roughly forty-four phonemes, and "redesigned" as three morphemes: re, design and ed.
Where people slip
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound; a morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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