Linguistics Vocabulary - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The specialized terminology, or technical language, associated with a particular field or area of activity.	jargon	57%
A branch of linguistics that analyzes the lexicon of a specific language — including formation, spelling, origin, usage, and definition.	lexicology	50%
A vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing. May also refer to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.	slang	50%
Any language that occurs naturally in a human community by a process of use, repetition, and change without conscious planning or premeditation.	natural language	49%
The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.	lexicography	47%
The set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers.	grammar	46%
A language variety that has undergone substantial codification of its grammar, lexicon, writing system, or other features and stands out among other varieties in a community as the one with the highest status or prestige.	standard language	46%
A group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language.	speech community	45%
A situation in which two dialects or languages are used (in fairly strict compartmentalization) by a single language community.	diglossia	44%
A language variety that marks speakers as members of ethnic groups who originally used another language or distinctive variety.	ethnolect	44%
The study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.	morphology	44%
A grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common.	pidgin	44%
The study of linguistic meaning.	semantics	42%
The coexistence of multiple languages (or distinct varieties of the same language) in one society or area.	polyglossia	40%
A way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual.	accent	39%
An individual's unique use of language, encompassing speech, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.	idiolect	38%
The branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.	phonology	38%
A stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form, and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period.	creole language	37%
A branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.	phonetics	35%
The study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.	syntax	35%
A form of language (non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class, profession, age group, or other social group.	sociolect	34%
A variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers.	dialect	30%
The ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.	vernacular	28%
A language used by various groups to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.	argot	18%
A general term for speech or language that is considered nonstandard.	patois	8%

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