UGS 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nostratic Languages, Historical Linguistics, Animal Communication
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L&h lecture 2: foundations of effective communication skills in interdisiplinary settings. Animal communication: visual (badges/displays), auditory (howling/chirping), tactile (grooming/rubbing), chemical (dogs urinating/pheromones) Deep: ways in which lang. is hardwired and organized to be processed in the brain. Tone: a lang. in which di erences in word meaning are signaled by di s. in pitch. Thousands of languages are grouped into a new language families. Most linguistically heterogenous place on earth is papua new guinea. 3 types of language classi caiton: genetic classi cation, linguistic typological classi cation (relative word order, morphology, areal classi cation. Genetic doesnt mean dna, its categorization of languages according to the ancestor. L&h lecture 2: foundations of effective communication skills in interdisiplinary settings langs. from which they developed. Linguistic typological classi cation: classi cation by structural characteristics without regard for genetic relationships. Areal classi cation: identi es characteristics shared by languages that are in geopgraphical contact.
