LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mutual Intelligibility, Human Brain, Developmental Disorder
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Small vocabulary, variable word order, single clause sentences, choppy. Language much richer than pidgin in lexicon and grammar. Children exposed to pidgin and develop a creole. Language change is very slow except in creolization. Dialects represent a stage in the development of a new language. Differences arise when speakers are separated by geographic region, social class, race / ethnicity, or level of education. when language change spreads throughout a population. Dialects are not sloppy versions of the standard language, it only operates according to rules different from those of the standard dialect. All dialects are rule-governed and obey principles of ug. Standard dialect is idealization based on social and historical pressures all dialects are equally creative, logical, expressive. Two ways of speaking are dialects if they are mutually intelligible. Cerebral cortex makes decisions based on information from all parts of the body. Also responsible for higher human cognitive abilities, including language.
