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- Language - Language and culture | BritannicaLanguage is transmitted culturally; that is, it is learned. To a lesser extent it is taught, when parents, for example, deliberately encourage their children to talk and to respond to talk, correct their mistakes, and enlarge their vocabulary.
- Language - Linguistic change | BritannicaIn the transmission of a language from parent to child, slight deviations in all aspects of language use occur all the time, and, as children’s communication contacts widen, they confront a growing range of slight differences in personal language use, some of them correlating with social or regional differences within a community, these differences themselves being the results of the transmission process. As a consequence, children’s language comes to differ slightly from that of their ...
- Language Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Websterlanguage noun lan· guage ˈlaŋ-gwij 1 a : the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a large group of people b : a means of communicating ideas sign language 2 : the means by which animals communicate or are thought to communicate with each other language of the bees 3
- Language - definition of language by The Free Dictionary4. any set or system of formalized symbols, signs, sounds, or gestures used or conceived as a means of communicating: the language of mathematics. 5. the means of communication used by animals: the language of birds. 6. communication of thought, feeling, etc., through a nonverbal medium: body language; the language of flowers.
- Language Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.comLanguage is a broad term applied to the overall linguistic configurations that allow a particular people to communicate: the English language; the French language. Dialect is applied to certain forms or varieties of a language, often those that provincial communities or special groups retain (or develop) even after a standard has been established: Scottish dialect; regional dialect; Southern dialect.
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