ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Phonology, Nonverbal Communication, Ethnolinguistics
3 Oct 2012
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Symbols can be combined to create other meaningful combinations. A symbol is one type of sign: something that refers to (stands for, indicates, means) something else. Phonological (sound) patterning: a small number of distinguishable units of sound (/k/, /a/, /t/, etc. ) which are meaningless and how those units of sound may be combined into longer, composite sounds /k/ /a/ /t/ is distinguishable from /t/ /a/ /k/; producing a very large number of possible composite sounds that speakers of the language can identify. Morphological (meaning) patterning: the identifiable, distinguishable units of meaning: dog , car , -s for plural, etc. Filters: culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectation, intentions. Phonetics: description and study of human speech sounds in general, across all languages. Phonemics: describes how speakers of a given language categorize the range of possible speech sounds into significant types (phonemes) Phonemes: the smallest significant units of sound in a given language.
