ANT253H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lev Vygotsky, Noam Chomsky, Universal Grammar
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Plato: poverty of stimulus reasoning language is an innate biological endowment. We were programmed universal grammar. Vygotsky: described learn little to kids the as first ever of all the textbook language and root languages the wrote languages. Synchronic: study language as it is now vs. diachronic: study language as it has been. Structuralism: need to understand small element to understand larger relative structure purposes. Edward sapir (linguistic anthropology) language, thought, and culture are interlinked. Ethnographic: method to gain insight into a language living among the people they wrote about. Figurative. and cultural are world specific linguistics with world related language. Parole: different different social the vs. of of. Ding dong theory: speech resulted from vocal imitation or simulation of the objects. Yo he ho theory: chants made by early people through their activities (tone, rhythm, etc. ) La la theory: lovemaking the sound our human ancestors made of instinctive developed of originated from out in response sound.
