LING 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Animal Communication, Linguistic Determinism, Arbitrariness
29 Oct 2018
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No: for birds: no evidence of interchangeability, duality of patterning, or reflexiveness, for bees: no evidence of these either, nor of prevarication or learnability, for apes: no evidence of displacement, duality of patterning, or learnability in the wild. Isn"t it more likely for the inuit people"s worldview to influence the vocabulary they use: the weaker form of the sapir-whorf hypothesis is linguistic relativism. Asserts that speakers do think about the world in different ways, depending on their language. Grammar determines those aspects of each experience that must be expressed. (franz boas 1858-1942) Russian speaker have been shown to be better at discriminating light blue (goluboy) from dark blue (siniy) as compared to english speakers. 200-300 native speakers) makes use of geographic coordinates as opposed to egocentris ones. Affects speakers" way of thinking (personal geographic knowledge: the language of the matses people of peru (ca.
