LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Zuni Language, Language Death, Language Of Thought Hypothesis

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Clifford Burgess

Document Summary

How are innateness and discontinuity problem related. Online quiz due monday, april 3rd at midnight. Deterministic view says language literally conditions thought. No o(cid:374)e takes this se(cid:396)iousl(cid:455) a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t a(cid:374)s(cid:449)e(cid:396) if this is t(cid:396)ue. Language capacity, words, grammar = linguistic determinism, how you see the world. Focal point within colour makes it more salient. Interesting how people interpret colours due to their saliency. 11 colours with saliency: does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) the(cid:396)e"s a name for all 11. If there are only 2 colour terms, they will be black and white. If 3, they will be black, white, and red. Can lead to conclusion that language merely encodes some pre-established reality. Zuni language: does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e sepa(cid:396)ate (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds fo(cid:396) yellow and orange, has two different words for yellow though, one word refers to things that have become yellow by aging and ripening.