ANT 10CD Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linguistic Performance, Kinesics, Linguistic Relativity
5 Apr 2016
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Each call has only one meaning, which is always in the present tense. Particular calls only occur in particular environmental circumstances (ex. mating, breeding, territory, food) Based upon arbitrary learned associations between words and the things for which they stand. Functions as a system of classiication and mental representation of the world. Capacity to remember and combine linguistic symbols may be latent in apes. Recent genetic studies put language in homo sapiens approx. 150,000 years ago (had recognizable sounds, just not as many as we have today) Primitive mind and primitive thought don"t think like us. Primitive people were not logical, thought magically or like children. Boasian response to 19th century beliefs about how primitives thought. Semantics and words (once we label something, it label) Phonology sounds that are used in a language, sound combinations, phonetics. Morphology morpheme: a sound cluster that is a minimal unit of meaning ex) cats.
