ANTH 1003 : Anthropology Exam 1
Document Summary
Call system form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment. Productivity idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new, meaningful utterances they have never before heard. Displacement capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present. Phonetics sounds the human mouth can make for language: phones smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language. Syntax system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences. Semantics system of a language that relates words to meaning. Phonemes smallest significant unit of sound in a language: contrastive, unpredictable distribution, how many, vowel: 8. 7, english: 14, consonants: 22. 8, english: 24. Morphemes smallest unit of language that has a meaning. Syntax/grammar clauses, sentences: how classes/sentences are organized in a language. Minimal pairs two words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings: reveal contrasts in sounds.
