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This chapter explores the similarities and differences among the concepts of speech, language, and communication and their extralinguistic and linguistic components. These concepts make up aspects of the complex, systematic and collaborative tool for human social interaction.

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Question 1.

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Question 2.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 3.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 4.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 5.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 6.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 7.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 9.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 10.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 12.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 13.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 14.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 15.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 16.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 17.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 18.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 19.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 20.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 21.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 22.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 23.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 24.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 25.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 26.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 27.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 28.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 29.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 30.

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 31.

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Question 32.
Which of the following statements best describes the term speech?


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Question 33.
An example of a nonlinguistic cue would be:


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Question 34.
The smallest units of grammatical meaning in a language are called

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Question 35.
The word 'eat' would be an example of what type of morpheme?


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Question 36.
When we notice that the words 'speed' and 'car' share some of the same features of meaning, we are using rules of which language component?

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Question 37.
Language is generative, which means that


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Question 38.
In the sentence "The whorly snork wiffled the hig slibber." You know that the nonsense word wiffled is a regular past tense verb because of your knowledge of


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Question 39.
Speech Acts are an aspect of Pragmatics. As such, their form may not always match the underlying communication intent. For example I may ask someone "Do you have the time?" but not be expecting a 'yes' or 'no' as stipulated by the syntax of the actual sentence because


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Question 40.
Demonstration of expressive language skills requires being able to speak.


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Question 41.
Language is multimodal.

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Question 42.
Listening is not really a part of communication.


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