LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Triangle Of Reference, Body Plan

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Hendrikus Van Der Hulst

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Ling 1010 lecture 29 - from call systems to language; the. This is not very helpful; too recent. People may assume that there was no language before homo sapiens. That is incorrect: language does not have to be speech; it can be signed. The transition from call system to language may have been in uenced by climate change. The great river valley split up right down the middle; Chimpanzees were left to swing around in forests; Those near ethiopia were left in a dreary environment; They decided to come down from their trees and began to talk. The ancestors of homo sapiens began walking upright. Phonology: word-internal structure cat = c-a-t: does not consist of multiple morphemes. (professor means phonological structure, not morphological structure. ) Syntax: word-external structure the cat on the mat. Humans have a combinatorial mind: can combine different symbols to infer meaning. A word is made up of: a form (phonology, a meaning (conceptual structure, a word label.