ANT253H1 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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Y perhaps no other faculty distinguishes humanity from all other species as. Chapter 1 what is language? language does. y humans use language to encode knowledge, to pass it on to subsequent generations, to investigate reality, to communicate among themselves, to entertain themselves, and so on and so forth. ), or non-vocal, as in writing or in gesturing. y one can have language without speech, but one cannot have speech without language because the successful deployment of speech is dependent on the categories of the language system. The former has a few members, and the latter many more. y pivot class (a) y all-gone y bye-bye y as the child s learning of vocabulary increases, she or he adds more classes to. Milk this basic pivot structure: alex make tower . y only late do function words such as prepositions and conjunctions emerge, allowing the child to connect the pivot and open words in the same way that adults do.
