Test 2 Flashcards

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Study of all things language

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Linguistics

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a signal from one being to another meant to convey a message

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comunication

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3
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Oral arbitrary sounds or gestures we assign meanings to

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language

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4
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a sound that means a certain message

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Primate call system

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5
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area of brain that is damaged, affects speaking

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Aphasia, brocos brain

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The concept that primates are are HARD WIRED for language

Also the process in wich humans learn and develop languages

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Language acquisition

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7
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Phonology

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the sound of language

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8
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The way words appear

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Morphology

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9
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The underlying message of the words

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Semantics

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10
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the order of the words

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Syntax

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The language that we sepak influences the way we think about reality

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Linguisitc relativity / sapir whorf

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12
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Important words to a culture

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focal vocabulary

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13
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the study of language in relation to social factors, including differences of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism. AND slurs

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sociolinguistics

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14
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Language is very flexable, and meaning are always changing

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language change

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14
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languages have different ways of perceiving things, terms don’t have direct translation from language to language

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Language diversity and language loss

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15
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Test if a child would be able to know language if they were never exposed to it by a certain age

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Forbidden experiment

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16
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What is archeology about?

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people / living things

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what is pre history?

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Before writing

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what is “history”

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After writing, writing is history

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Goals of archeology

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Understanding past human history through remains, how past life was, and cultural changes

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Dendrochronology

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using the rings on the tree to determine carbon dating

20
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What is carbon 14?

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An absolute dating method used by archeologists.

21
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Where is presevation good and bad?

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Good in MiddleEast /dry climates, bad in wet enviroments

22
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What are artifacts?

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things that have been made by human

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Key changes brought by Mesolithic era
Climate change, wet environment, and the transformation from hunter-gather to agriculture domestication
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How did food productions affect populations?
it allowed for them to settle in one place, and grow in population.
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what is Noam Chomsky's theory of Universal Grammar?
certain grammatical structures are natural to all human languages
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Consequences of food production:
Easier quality of life, sometimes left to famin and social issues, like conflicts between villages. Overall a good thing
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impact of trade during Neolithic / bronze age
Long distance allowed for the spread of ideas and goods from many different regions, helped fuel the bronze age
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what was first writing system used for
used for accounting money
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Effects of Bronze age
Introduction of new Foods, alc, money, textile clothes, laws ETC
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What social Things were introduced in bronze age
Social hierarchy, based on wealth, class, and occupation. also the introduction to enforced laws
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What happened to gender roles during bronze age
Gender roles were made extreme, women lost a lot of power
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What is the neolithic package
the collection of innovations and practices that characterize the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a settled, agricultural one, including domesticated plants and animals, pottery, and new stone tools.
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Where were domestication centers
All over the world
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What is the blanchard bone?
A bone with the moon faces carved into it
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What are complex religions
A hierarchy to religions
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Beurcracy
Many different levels of government
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big black hairy balls sack
yes
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what is talheim river
river in germany, farmers stay on rivers, too many hunters taking land up top
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social contract
humans respect rights of animals, animals benefit human culture
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natufian culture
first domesticators of animals and plants
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material culture
The physical objects made by society
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multidisplanry
Archeology is not just digging stuff