LING 1100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: American Sign Language, Semantic Change, Waggle Dance
27 Apr 2016
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Linguistics midterm questions: an example of a communication system with no syntax but some (limited) phonology is, human sign language, music, computer languages, ape communication (?, bird song-units strung together. Individual units have no meanings but the whole message does: the bee communication system (the waggle dance showing direction and distance to food source relative to sun angle) Raised variant occurs before voiceless consonants t, p, k, s, sh, f , ch, th. In hindi, [p] and [ph] are separate phonemes; in english they are not. Which of the following is true: there can never be a [ph] in english, hindi is a more ancient language than english c. It will be very easy for all english speakers to distinguish minimal pairs in hindi involving. [p] and [ph: hindi is impossible to learn for english speakers e. It will be difficult for english speakers to distinguish minimal pairs in hindi involving.
