ANT102H5 Lecture : Lecture 3
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Overview for today"s lecture: the origins of language, the biology of language, descriptive grammar, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics. It is the most common means of human communication that is unique to our species: other primates have communication systems, some primates have been taught the basics of language (through laboratory conditions) Many psychologists would argue that acquiring language is a necessary feature of becoming human: it is our cognition, mind and thoughts developed, not necessarily just spoken language, but also signing, pictograms. Understanding how language works, provides a model of how culture works: if we can grasps language, we can grasp culture based. Lecture 02 july 16, 2013: argued that language was based on onomatopoeia, the idea that language is based on imitating nature. High index of encephalization: humans have a very high brain to body size ratio where our brains and heads are big. Lateralization of linguistic functions: right handed humans, tend to be left brain hemisphere dominat.
