ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Noam Chomsky, Ascribed Status, Symbolic Capital
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The tendency to view one"s own culture as superior and to use one"s own standards and values in judging others is called ethnocentrism. Morphology: forms in which sounds combine to form morphemes (words and meaningful parts of words) Lexicon: dictionary containing all morphemes and their meanings. Syntax: arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences. Phoneme: sound contrast that makes a difference or differentiates meaning. Historical linguistics: examines the long-term variation of speech by studying protolanguages and daughter languages. Reconstruct features of past languages by studying contemporary daughter languages. Daughter languages: languages that descend from the same parent language. Protolanguage: the original language from which daughter languages descend. Subgroups: languages within a taxonomy of related languages that are most closely related. Phonetics: study of human speech sounds in general. Noam chomsky: human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language, so all languages have a common structural basis.
