PLIC55H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Dravidian Languages
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There are about 7000 living languages in the world. It"s estimated that over half a million langs have been spoken since man 1st started speaking. Plic55: psycholing: 11-164 distinct phonemes, # of morphemes that can attach to a free morpheme, kind of info that has to be present in the ling, categories for their syntactic building blocks, having fixed vs. fluid word order. Lang diversity is a testament to the breadth and elasticity of the human ling capacity. The limits of my lang are the limits of my world. -ludwig wittgenstein: lang itself embodies important aspects of the culture of its speakers and their way of thinking. Papa new guinea: 800+ langs, variety of different/distinctive habitats to support wildlife: rapid industrialization and globalization pose a threat for bio/ling diversity, lang death severs the tie between people and their cultural heritage. 12. 1 what do langs have in common? (pg.
