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1. Lexicon: The vocabulary of a particular language, field, social class, person, etc. 2. Grammar: The study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax. 3. Syntax: The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. 4. Phonology: The study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation. 5. Linguistic Relativism: The proposition that different languages encode different categories, and that speakers of different languages therefore think about the world in different ways. 6. Onomatopoeia: The formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. 7. Independent Clause: A clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a verb. 8. Dependent Clause: A group of words with a subject and a verb. It does not express a complete thought so it is not a sentence and can't stand alone. 9. Linguistic Determinism: The proposition that the language we speak establishes how we perceive the world. Bonus: Semantics: The meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc.