LIN 1300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sonorant, Back Vowel, Minimal Pair
19 Oct 2016
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Cultural transmission: some aspeccts acquired thru interaction w others. Evidence: many forms for meaning (except for obomatopoeia, sound symbolism) Discreteness: discrete units combined to create larger units. Displacement: communicate about objects not present in space/time during convo. Speech communication chain: info source, transmitter, signal, receiver, destination. Writing: use of graphic marks systematically to represent specific linguistic utterances. Abugidas: consonants = full graphemes, vowels = diacritics. Abjads: only consonants, vowels thru context, sometimes diacritics. Social/cultural reflected in structure/lexicon; language represents social world. Kinship terms: categorizing ppl reflects cultural ideals of social organization. Communicative competence: ability to interact according to norms which requires cultural understanding. Politeness: normative, expected linguistic/extralinguistic strategies culturally agreed to be appropriate for given situation, all levels of language. Speaker roles: who individual is speaking to, expectations change w role/setting. Turn-taking rules: length of time waiting to begin talking, quick response vs long pause. Tag qs: utterances beginning w statements ending w question about truth of statement.
