ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Middle Class, Universal Grammar, Speech Community
19 Apr 2017
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The form of communication among nonhuman primates composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment. The notion that, in human language, words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand. The ability of humans to combine words and sounds into new meaningful utterances. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present. Speech community a group of people who share a set of norms and rules for the use of language. Universal grammar a basic set of principles, conditions, and rules that underlie all languages. The study and analysis of the structure and content of particular languages. The part of grammar that has to do with the arrangement of words to form phrases and sentences. The subsystem of a language that relates words to meaning. A sound made by humans and used in any language.
