NEURO 595 Quiz

**Human Language**

A dynamic, learned, hierarchical, relatively autonomous system of meaning-generating paradigmatic and syntagmatic signs that signify and communicate to self and others via speech communities and communities of practice throughout the life cycle.

**Speech Communities**

A community sharing rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech, and rules for the interpretation of at least one linguistic variety.

**Communities of Practice (CoP)**

A group of people brought together by some mutual endeavor, some common enterprise in which they are engaged and to which they bring a shared repertoire of resources, including linguistic resources, and for which they are mutually accountable.

**Signification**

The human ability to to collectively invent innovative and dynamic external symbols.

**Pitch**

A property of a sound that enables it to be ordered on a scale going from low to high.

**Timbre**

Aspect of sound that distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch, duration, and loudness.

**Scale**

A series of musical pitches in a distinct order.

Meaning

Signifies the relationship between the abstracted part and the whole.