LING 001 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Grammar, French Language, Language Change
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1/12/18: some responses might be formulaic (thanks, you"re welcome) but most aren"t. Mid-day meal you only make that connection because you learned it. That is learned: bees can also learn (evidence from a bilingual" hive of european and. Asian honeybees: clearly, communication involving training by humans is also culturally- transmitted. In the wild: vervet monkeys, 37 different meaningful calls, clearly separate calls for snakes, big cats, eagles, hyenas, etc, arbitrariness, young monkeys are apparently not always accurate, use eagle call for any bird, overgeneralizing like children. Verbal/seeing: what do they have to communicate about, amount of exposure changes things, both capable of it but don"t always have the opportunity (motivation, dr. Doolittle"s delusion : why do so many researchers try to teach animals human language, can they be taught it, do they need it, should be focusing on what they"re naturally communicating and see what we can learn from that.
