ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Phoneme, Noam Chomsky, Cultural Learning
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Call systems: they have a limited number of sounds, they are used only when stimlu are present, they cannot be combined to produce more complex messages. Washoe a chimp gradually knew a vocabulary of more than one hundred signs representing english words. Cultural transmission of a communication system through learning is a fundamental attribute of language. Phonology: the study of speech sounds, considers which sounds are presents and significant in a given language. Morphology: studies the way sounds combine to form morphenes- words and their meaningful parts thus the word cats would have 2 morphenes cat for the animal, and s meaning plurality. A language"s lexicon is a dictionary containing all its morphemes and their meanings. Syntax refers to the arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences, for ex. Do adjectives normally precede or follow the nouns they modify. Phonetics is the study of speech sounds in general, what people actually say in various languages.
