Language

Question 1

area of brain where language happens

Answer 1

Broca’s cap

Question 2

area of brain that support language and speech

Answer 2

Wernecke’s cap

Question 3

first species with articulate speech

Answer 3

H. ergaster

Question 4

could chimps talk?

Answer 4

no

Question 5

do Oldowan tools imply speech?

Answer 5

yes

Question 6

are there genes associated with language?

Answer 6

yes, there are 10

Question 7

body parts associated with human speech

Answer 7

large thoracic canal, hyoid(tongue bone), larynx and flexion (up-arching), inner ear - ossicles

Question 8

each linguistic variety (language) is____

Answer 8

a system of rules

Question 9

grammar is _______ dependent

Answer 9

structure

Question 10

do any languages use counting rules?

Answer 10

no

Question 11

Andrea Moro’s experiments

Answer 11

german speaking participants taught italian and japanese words
given real rules and fake rules
learned real language faster than fake
real language used broca’s cap

Question 12

do sign languages develop spontaneously?

Answer 12

yes

Question 13

what unifies all languages?

Answer 13

grammar (rules)

Question 14

what’s the difference between a language and dialect?

Answer 14

there is no definite cutoff point

Question 15

why do languages diversity?

Answer 15

migration, isolation, different conditions

Question 16

how many languages today?

Answer 16

8000

Question 17

more or fewer languages 10K years ago?

Answer 17

fewer

Question 18

why do languages disappear?

Answer 18

language death, language shift, language endangergment

Question 19

what does it mean for languages to be related?

Answer 19

they evolve from the same language

Question 20

most common words to be borrowed?

Answer 20

plants and animals

Question 21

proto-language

Answer 21

earliest known ancestor to group of languages (latin)

Question 22

cognate

Answer 22

word with similar meaning and sound (ancestor word)

Question 23

does the same alphabet mean a similar language?

Answer 23

no

Question 24

baker’s paradox

Answer 24

languages are not slightly different, languages are not completely different

Question 25

point of variation in languages

Answer 25

parameters

Question 26

OV

Answer 26

object verb

Question 27

Japanese OV or VO

Answer 27

OV

Question 28

English OV or VP

Answer 28

VO

Question 29

language cipher reasons

Answer 29

who to fight, fuck, or inform

Question 30

do language and genes overlap?

Answer 30

yes

Question 31

can isoglosses infer ancestry and relatedness of languages?

Answer 31

no

Question 32

false-cognate

Answer 32

words that sound and are used the same, but lack common ancestry

Question 33

what are better words to determine ancestry of language?

Answer 33

kinship, numbers pronouns

Question 34

Languages all obey rules, but they're all different, why?

Answer 34

universal and subjective parameters (no strings vs order of OV). languages vary within the scope of universal parameters

Question 35

How can a large language be endangered?

Answer 35

Only spoken by elderly, only taught in schools, no new participants, dwindling numbers