ANTH 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies, Paralanguage, Diglossia

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Anth 203 midterm 1 study notes chapter 4. Language is profoundly connected to culture and share many of the same features (ie. learnability, productivity, transmission, etc) Symbol: a conventional and arbitrary vehicle for meaning. Productivity: the capacity of language to combine meaningless sounds to create words or words to create sentences (proves cognitive ability) Learning a language progresses from sounds to meanings to utterances to practical use. Structure of language: phonology: how sounds are used in a language (which sound occurs and how do they combine/interact with others) Phoneme: a (cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:373)al sou(cid:374)d u(cid:374)it (cid:894)ie. (cid:858)th(cid:859), (cid:858)sh(cid:859), (cid:858)f(cid:859), (cid:858)! (cid:859)(cid:895) Phonemes are not universal and if someone speaks a language using the phonology of another, it is called speaking with an accent. Physi(cid:272)al (cid:373)otio(cid:374) also (cid:272)o(cid:374)tri(cid:271)utes to pho(cid:374)ology (cid:894)ie. (cid:858)l(cid:859) i(cid:374) e(cid:374)glish (cid:272)reates a hollow in the middle of the tongue) and this can cause learning a foreign language to feel difficult or strange.

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