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This 5 page paper reviews the four levels of language, sound, meaning, syntax and pragmatics. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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1. sound, 2. meaning, 3. syntax and 4. pragmatics. Gleason illustrates the fact that there is communicative intent even before an infant is actually capable
of speaking. The infant can perceive speech and once it has attained the appropriate sociological imprinting it begins to try to imitate that speech. The beginning speech patterns,
of course, contain only a few prototypic words. As the child develops cognitively these initially utterances are refined into properly pronounced words. These few initial words quickly grow into
full-fledged language. While humans can communicate both verbally and non-verbally, verbal communication is the more prominent. While verbal communication can
occur even with the use of primal sounds such as groans, whimpers, and growls, (the first level of language) more advanced communication occurs with the use of language. Language
is a standardized repertoire of sounds all strung together to make words with definitive meaning (the second level of language). When those words are strung together grammatically into sentences
we then have syntax (the third level of language). The pragmatics of language (the fourth level of language) involves a speakers lexicon,
a lexicon including grammatical and psycholingistic factors, combined with their social competence to affect how they communicate. The term "lexicon", of course, is simply another term for "vocabulary". Our
lexicon, however, can be quite specific to a particular sociological structure. An attorney, for example, has a different lexicon than say an elementary school teacher. The vocabulary that
we develop is, after all, reflective of our life experiences and needs. A speakers intonation, phonology, syntax, semantics and numerous other aspects of
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