PHL 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Dani People, Hunter-Gatherer, Eleanor Rosch
26 Sep 2020
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Shown color chips asked to learn novel names for color chips. Barbara malt: english speakers jugs , containers and jars , spanish speakers frasco . English has more terms to correspond to this category. Within and across languages: not everything glass is a bottle, not everything not glass is not a bottle. If language was the director of thought, subjects should differ in their classifications. People group via perceptual similarity regardless of language. Denote individual entities, such as, object kinds. Typically denote non individual entities that is, substance rather than object. Do children know the difference or do they learn via language. Able to differentiate and extend the concepts. By the time they can speak they can tell the different. Len talmy (1985: two styles of motion expression characterizing different languages. English often uses a verb plus a separate path to describe motion event (walk through, run away) general purpose verb (walk, run) and a path.
