ACS 106 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Adjective Phrase, Isogloss

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 106
• Professor: Jamin Pelkey

Document Summary

Chess: language is like chess, including its history, rules, patters etc. Speech is like any particular game of chess being played out. Piano: the 88 keys, history, theory etc is language, and any particular song being played on the piano is speech. Originally thought there was one god-given language. An egyptian pharaoh wanted to see what the original god-given language was so he isolated children on an island with a mute shepherd and goats. When the children spoke, they said something along the line of bekos , meaning bread in phrygian. However, taking away the - kos the pronounced word sound like the baa that goats say, therefore it is likely that the children were just imitating the goats. Many also argue that hebrew was the first language because of the bible and tongue movements. Bow wow theory - humans tried to imitate sounds and then used them to refer to those objects even when they weren"t present.