Test 2 Flashcards
Study of all things language
Linguistics
a signal from one being to another meant to convey a message
comunication
Oral arbitrary sounds or gestures we assign meanings to
language
a sound that means a certain message
Primate call system
area of brain that is damaged, affects speaking
Aphasia, brocos brain
The concept that primates are are HARD WIRED for language
Also the process in wich humans learn and develop languages
Language acquisition
Phonology
the sound of language
The way words appear
Morphology
The underlying message of the words
Semantics
the order of the words
Syntax
The language that we sepak influences the way we think about reality
Linguisitc relativity / sapir whorf
Important words to a culture
focal vocabulary
the study of language in relation to social factors, including differences of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism. AND slurs
sociolinguistics
Language is very flexable, and meaning are always changing
language change
languages have different ways of perceiving things, terms don’t have direct translation from language to language
Language diversity and language loss
Test if a child would be able to know language if they were never exposed to it by a certain age
Forbidden experiment
What is archeology about?
people / living things
what is pre history?
Before writing
what is “history”
After writing, writing is history
Goals of archeology
Understanding past human history through remains, how past life was, and cultural changes
Dendrochronology
using the rings on the tree to determine carbon dating
What is carbon 14?
An absolute dating method used by archeologists.
Where is presevation good and bad?
Good in MiddleEast /dry climates, bad in wet enviroments
What are artifacts?
things that have been made by human