LING 15 Lecture 5: Ling 15
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Evolution out of this would relate the call to the concept rather than to an immediate referent. Ape vocal tracts have little phonetic range. Vocab of about 180 signs- no remoteness, no patterned combo. (cid:858)me eat (cid:271)a(cid:374)a(cid:374)a(cid:859) is (cid:374)o differe(cid:374)t fro(cid:373) (cid:858)(cid:271)a(cid:374)a(cid:374)a eat (cid:373)e(cid:859) Yerkish project- system of symbols where tokens represent objects. Technicians wouldn"t be aware of conditions defined by lead researchers. Better experiment than koko and washoe (hear word in headphones, tap symbol/pic associated with sound of word) Order of words do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:373)atter o(cid:374)l(cid:455) s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)oli(cid:272) relatio(cid:374)ships. Midterm: some is mc, some is not, bring red scantron. Languages vary in arrangement of symbols & organization of info. Ideas may be grammatically, lexically, or phrasally encoded in diff ways in each language. Lexical: single words encode multiple concepts; conceptual groups visible in word categories. Study of diff system of grammatical organization. Weighted by languages, not speakers- gives better balanced representation to types. Numeral: a symbol that represents an amount.
