ACS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Animal Communication, Arbitrariness, Iconicity

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 106
• Professor: Pelkey Jamin

Document Summary

> children look to clarify things so they recognize sounds to things. > animal makes a certain noise and theirs a sound system that makes it known to them. > bootstrapping: not just a way of jumping in and doing it for yourself but it is a way of holding things together, pull it on, keep it on. > it is also used in a lot of quantitate methods, which lays a foundation to build on a more complex understanding. > children look for words that sounds like what they represent. > which of these shapes is kiki? not words in the english language but they are sound systems that work. Idea that the sounds of a person involved in a physical effort could be the source of our language. Early humans develop a set of hums, grunts, groans, and curses. Groups are necessarily social organizations and to maintain those organizations some form.