ANT-2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Linguistic Description, Linguistic Universal, Linguistic Determinism
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Considers which sounds are present and significant in a given language. Morphology: studies the form in which sounds combine to form . Syntax: the arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences. Phoneme: a sound contrast that makes a difference. Minimal pairs: words that resemble each other in all but one sound. Learning principles such as association, imitation, and reinforcement. Young children learn language with virtually no instruction. Genetically determined, hard-wired predisposition of linguistic features common to all languages. Different languages produce different ways of thinking. The idea that language, culture, and ways of perceiving things are closely related. Linguistic determinism: idea that the language a person speaks determines the. Societies with snow have lots of words for different types of snow. Not so in languages that do not have snow. Eskimo different words for falling snow, snow on ground, etc. Aztec only one word for snow. These affect the way people think about the reality of snow.
