LIN200H5 Lecture Notes - Auxiliary Verb, Iconicity, Arbitrariness
Document Summary
Asl considered a language w/o spoken part of it. Body language example of an informative signal. Hockett"s design features of human language iconicity: ex. no-smoking sign, stop sign w/o wrd stop Onomatopoeia: not always the same in every language (sound of a cat. Think of arbitrariness as more of a continuum that a binary. Discretness: in english, the sounds p and b are discrete. Displacement: animals can"t show displacement in their communication: ex. cat can tell you it want food now by making sounds and circling around food bowl, but can"t tell you he wants food in 1 hour. Productivity: need to know rules of the language. Duality of patterning: each language has a finite # of discrete sounds which are recombined. Vervet monkeys: cough to alert others an eagle is approaching (instead of imitating eagle sound) Honeybees: show displacement thru drone dances, can"t show displacement up (height)
