Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Vido, Proto-Language, Michif Language

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1027A/B
• Professor: Tania Granadillo

Document Summary

Identify sound correspondence in the cognates: eliminate borrowed words or unrelated words, corresponding sounds have to be in the same position in the word. For each correspondence, deduce the most likely sound in the parent: choose the simplest or most common change from the reconstructed to newer form. Write rules which show the changes from the protolanguage to the daughter languages: only write rules for changes. Deciding which is the parent form: majority rules, naturalness of certain changes hono hono fono vono. Weakening to an h in the first. [f] and [v] are unlikely to come from [h] Can shed light on the nature of human linguistic competence. Aboriginal languages of canada: they are complex, have grammar, can express anything that is needed. Structural and semantic phenomena not found in other languages. Help resolve problems in archeology and anthropology. Amerind hypothesis every language of americans come from 1 language family. More conservative, various families and some isolates.