ANTHR-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Foxp2, Closed And Exact Differential Forms, Cultural Learning
24 Aug 2020
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Video: speaking in tongue do not exist, they are lost. Ex: dog doesn"t sound like a dog so it is arbitrary. Language is a complex system of arbitrary vocal sounds used to encode the world. It includes learned associations between words and the things they represent. Language is unique to humans for communication. All language only go back about 50,000 years all earlier languages are lost and. Qoi son people are the oldest people. Oldest sound in the world- but no evidence. 2000 languages in africa, 6000 in the world. Diversity in africa because of isolation and migration. Spoken by about . 1% of the people in the world. Terms the names for things, events, actions and qualities. American english uses only about 38 sounds depending on the dialect. Morphemes- the smallest meaning-bearing units of language. Lexicon- a dictionary containing all the morphemes and meanings in a language; Syntax- the arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences.
