LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas, Language Change, Afroasiatic Languages
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Contrast: contrast in grammaticallty and be specific on why the contrast occurs. Extra credit question #1: we dont learn all of the formuls in math just like we don"t know all of the words in language. #2: no, you could have misslearned it, you could have misinterpreted in another way. Monogenesis: everyone started out speaking the same language, then they were divided, then their language was changed as a natural process. Language change is natural, but there isnt one dirrection. Languages change because learning a language is immperfect, children are changing language every generation. Naranja (spanish=orange) but was borrowed into english as norange and now it is orange. Norange and an orange sound the same, so it lost it"s n . Not all langauge is innate, we have to learn some of it, people can misinterpret it. Similar becasue when the coffee was intorudced into a new area, the same name came with it.
