LING 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nicaraguan Sign Language, Anatomically Modern Human, Linguistic Purism In English
27 Aug 2016
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4/25-4/25: we almost there boyssss, remember a. Rats, babies, grown ups behave the same until they grow up: nicaraguan sign language, archaeology, earliest examples if writing= numbers not words, about 5000 years ago b. i. China: about 3000 years ago, independent invention, these examples seem to relate to fully-developed natural languages, aphasia and brains a. Laborgue, had lots of brain damage and had aphasia: said ton to mean lots of different things c. Limits speech, from brain damage: fluent aphasia is jibberish d. i. Ge influence from norma french: two possibilities, there are scholars who argue that a. i. Nohl probably emerged once, with contemporary languages tracing back to a common ancestor a. ii. Nohl probably happened multiple times in multiple human communities a. ii. 1. A theory developed by joseph greeneberg, merrit ruhlen, and their students b. ii. Uses a system of mass comparison of words in languages b. iii. 1. Unable to distinguish between linguistic similarities due to shared history vs those due borrowing or accident b. iv.
