ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Frenulum Of Labia Minora, Socalled, Edward Sapir
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Semantic universality: is a unique aspect of human communication. It refers to the communicative power of language-the fact that language provides for nearly infinite combinations that express different experiences and thought in different ways: these are the three distinctive features of semantic universality. Infinite capacity of human language: creation of new messages, to convey information about an infinite number of subjects, we create these messages in greater detail, animals do not have this linguistic ability. As with other areas of scientific inquiry, linguistics try to discover the underlying rules that govern language. Phonetics: the study of the phones, or individual sounds, that native speakers make. Phones: represent etic occurrences, they occur die to variations in the location of the tongue and lips and the stress, pith and tone of the sounds. They can be observed and identifies in speech without having to question the speaker. Phonemic differences: are derived from patterns of sounds that are meaningful to native speakers.