PSYC 3402 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Damin, Lexical Item, International Auxiliary Language
1 Dec 2020
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Hale -- language endangerment and the human value of linguistic. Diversity: two realities of human knowledge of language: universality and diversity, language embodies the intellectual wealth of its people. Language loss has been a factor in loss of cultural diversity and intellectual wealth: hale"s eldwork on aboriginal lardil community (australia, auxiliary language damin still spoken by some men (taught during a religious initiation) 1: damin"s phonology differs greatly from lardil and has unique sounds for an aboriginal language, click consonants! (all nazalized, has the appearance of an invented language, sounds found nowhere else in the world. Ingressive voiceless lateral and labio-velar lingual ejective: it is a lexicon, not an entire language: each lexical item of lardil must be replaced by a damin item, the in ectional morphology and syntax of lardil is the same. 2: balance between abstraction and expressive power.
