LING 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies, Hot Chocolate, Lingua Franca
28 Apr 2017
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He was looking for things he thought were missing. No clear cognitive differences following from linguistic differences (several people would disagree with the above statement) Cup is on the table, cup is on the shelf (in the cupboard), cherry is in the cup. Dutch has as a preposition, meaning up", would use for on the table". Finish: in the shelf and in the cup, and use on" for on the table". Whorf - hopi language with no word for fast . Piraha (spoken in brazil) because of their language. Having a large number system and maintaining it relies on general lifestyle. For example, herders need to know the numbers in their herds. Having simple number systems is an effect of not needing to count. Test categories for how many basic color terms. Both speakers of english and dani succeeded and failed at sorting and memory tasks. System of numbers is one, two, many".
