LING 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Body Language, Speech Synthesis, Dectalk
15 Jan 2017
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Communication transmission of a message from one organism to another. Human adult yells, sighs, screams, throat clearing. Language communication using culturally arbitrary symbols (sounds may differ to non-natives) Speech normally vocally-produced symbols used for linguistic communication (discrete, productive, recombinable units aka phones ) Represents oral language: phones actual speech sounds a. / t k/ = attack: morphs discrete meaningful units a. b. c. Productivity words that could be in english, but are not actually words. In the case of the vervet monkey, their alarm calls were not discrete and productive. They made different alarm calls when they see a leopard, snake, and eagle. When one saw a leopard, their reaction was to run and climb up to the tree. When one noticed a snake, they all stood on their hind legs and looked down at the ground. When one observed an eagle, they all looked toward the sky.
