ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Symbolic Capital, Historical Linguistics, Daughter Language
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Based on arbitrary, learned associations between words and the things they represent. Benefit from experiences (tell a story, and that"s why you don"t ) Anthropologists study language in social and cultural context and the biological capability of language. Not the same capacity for language as humans. Call systems: a limited number of sounds that are produced in response to specific stimuli. Our ancestors began to cominr calls and to understand combinations. Productivity: the combining of two or more signs to create a new expression. Displacement: the ability to talk about things that are not present (there was a leopard in that cave last night) Washoe: vocab of more than 100 asl signs. Cultural transmission: transmission through learning, basic to language. Washoe and lucy tried to teach other animals sign. Koko the gorilla: regularly uses 400 asl signs and has used 700 at least once. Foxp2 gene: regulatory gene coding for brain and lung function.
