ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kanzi, James Rumbaugh, Phoneme
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Hawaiian kinship sex and generation but not close vs distant. Crow kinship distinguishing your mother"s relatives and lumping your father"s. Hierarchy of descent groups lineage clan- all members claim same ancestor phatry- composed of several clans moiety- balanced opposition of clans and phatries. Neolithic revolution independent transition to food production in at least 7 world areas. Paleolithic transition blade tools, very thin points, spear throwers, bone tools, advanced symbolism language. Primary states arose from? chiefdom competition phoneme sound units monomes meaning units pharynx in humans, the pharynx changes shape during speech, greater versatility in sound production earliest known town. Nim kept in a sterile environment and did not develop a language. Gorilla makes requests, comments, and expresses emotions gestures (learned american sign language) Morphology the study of word forms syntax the study of sentence structure semantics the rules of mapping meaning to sound sequences pragmatics the rules of social usage.
