ANTA02H3 Lecture 4: Week 4 Lecture
Document Summary
language was perceived by many to be a miracle, as a gift from god: the biology of language, descriptive gram mar, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics. The origins of language: divine theory tower of babel (gen. 11) traced from western roots, story of tower of babble humans tried to build to reach god. people babbling comes from this story. Ding dong theory cratylus & socrates. with the dawn of modern philosophy, you get new theories socrates credited with ding dong theory in dialogue of play-dough. no natural connection between an object and a word. onomatopoeia = words imitate the sounds that the objects make. bow wow = imitation of how dogs bark. language based on natural cries (grunt, growl, hymn, sigh) strong theory that was held up until fairly recently, primate vocalization was the basis of human evolution: evolutionary theory hominization.
