LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Seth Macfarlane, Gary Marcus, Mirror Neuron

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Clifford Burgess

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Other systems, (gestures, bee dance, smoke signals, etc. ) Issues of language origin have been very divisive in the past. Fights would break out over issue at scholarly conferences in 19th-century europe. Jesrepen; said kids should not be taught two languages at the same time (english and their second language), however, he based this off of nothing. Weighed in on how language is produced. Bow-wow theory: based on onomatopoeia; why do these sounds differ from language to language: bow-wow = wan-wan (japanese) = aw-aw (tagalog, different across different languages; not the same. Pooh-pooh theory: language comes from the sounds related to universal human emotions like joy, relief, etc. Ding-dong theory: sound symbolism: (cid:862)wee(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g s(cid:373)all(cid:895), the to(cid:374)gue is high up i(cid:374) the (cid:373)outh, (cid:862)large(cid:863), the to(cid:374)gue is lo(cid:449) do(cid:449)(cid:374, there are exceptions though, eg. big and small. Yo-he-ho theory: says that co-operative human efforts led to a build-up of language; social aspect of language is crucial.