ANT253H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Feral Child, Morpheme, Phoneme
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(andr martinet) language divided into 2: meaningful units of sound, called , second level consists of . Study of how words are composed of lexemes and morphemes. Distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one. The symbols in square brackets = representation of sounds i. e. [k] = cats, kind, ache i. ii. iii. iv. v. Children spontaneously acquire knowledge through the imitation of their. Feral children: child not exposed to language. Markers that ppl within community show diff in gender roles. Koasati (an indigenous language spoken in louisiana), men say lawawhol to refer to lifting, while women say lakawhos: different terms per gender b/c a social difference, not lexical but grammatical variation b/w 2 genders-very common. Ferdinand de saussure - distinction b/w historical and systematic study. Franz boas - how different cultures used their language for specific. To use structuralism method purposes: 1 st , showed , linguistic anthropology grammatical forms.
