PSY374H5 Lecture 1: PSY374
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Some overlap from lecture and textbook, but not a lot. Possession of language is single most important thing that distinguishes humans from other animals (not that other animals don"t communicate, but they don"t qualify for natural human language) Hard to know how many because what"s the difference between language and. People speaking the same language if they"re mutually intelligible to each other. Ex: mandarin and cantonese (debate whether different language or. How we process, comprehend, acquire language (slide 2) Many different languages (~3000) dialect different dialects) languages. Linguistic universals about languages before we can ask how we produce language, etc) (slide 3) Dance that signals info about the food. Waggle dance (figure 8) signal direction and distance. Great diversity to the number of language in the world. Ex: norwegian can understand swedish yet they"re considered different. But there"s also a lot common about a lot of languages. What the properties are that are considered to be universal (know what"s common.
