ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Language Acquisition Device, Interjection, Relativism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

Document Summary

Our world and their world absolute values and cultural relativism universal and particular structures in language and culture. 5 absolute values and cultural or moral relativism universal and particular structures in language universal and particular structures in cultural the ethics of field work case study: mother love and infant death in alto do cruzeiro, brazil. Moral relativism: there are no absolute values. what is good or evil spends on the culture. Universal (absolute) moral values believing that these exit is the opposite moral relativism it is not the opposite of cultural relativism. How different sounds are grouped together in different languages phones (studiedin phonetics. Phonemes they are not sounds but classes of sounds phonemes have variants positional variants: allophones. Phoneme and allophone the phoneme /p/has two allophones in most english dialects- aspirated ph and inspiration p= a. Ph occurs a the beginning of stressed syllables pat, pin, repeat (position 1: p= occurs everywhere else (position 2)