Anth 45

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vocal system consisting of a limited amount of sounds, primate language

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call systems

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basic featurs of language; the ability to speak of things and events that are not present

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displacement

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the existence of high "formal" and low "informal/"familial" dialects of a single language

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diglossia

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basic feature of language; the ability to use the rules of one's language to create new expressions comprehensible to other speakers

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productivity

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the study of sounds used in speech

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phonology

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study of form (in linguistics, the study of morphemes and word construction)

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morphology

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study of speech sounds in general; what people actually say in various languages

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phonetics

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study of the sound contrasts (phonemes) of a particular language

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phonemics

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study of communication through body movements, stances, gestures, and facial expressions

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kinesics

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unit of linguistics consisting of a word or word ending

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morpheme

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vocabulary; a dictionary containing all the morphemes in a language and their meanings

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lexicon

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arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences

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syntax

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significant sound contrast in a language that serves to distinguish meaning, as in minimal pairs

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phoneme

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arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences

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syntax

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theory that different languages produce different ways of thinking

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sapir-whorf hypothesis

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study of lexical (vaocabulary) contrasts and classifications in various languages

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ethnosemantics

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study of relationsips between social and linguistic variation; study of language in its social context

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sociolinguistics

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Berlin and Kay's study, in which they determined that there are ten basic color terms that appear in languages in a consistent order, is an example of the study of:

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ethnosemantics

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The use of a falsetto voice by women in Japan is an example of:

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style shift

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the proper language is a strategic resource to its user.

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principle of linguistic relativity

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cross-cultural comparison; the comparative study of ethnographic data, society, and culture

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ethnology

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fieldwork in a particular culture

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ethnography

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Which is not an example of applied anthropology?

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sociolinguistics

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two findings - core of anth

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1. range of variation in all aspects
2. some human aspects are remarkably uniform from culture to culture

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a capacity for culture

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humanity

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system of symbols; set of symbolically based rules for thought and behavior

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culture

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developed philosophy of signs

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charles pierce

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simplest sign; looks like the thing it stands for

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icon

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something associated with the thing it refers to

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index

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relationship is arbitrary with the thing it refers to, only a cultural reference

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symbol

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lion showing teeth when angry is an example of

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indexical communication

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linguist who talked about design features of human language, made 16 design featurs

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charles hocket

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language is not iconical or indexical

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arbitrariness

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you can produce the same message you just recieved

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interchangability

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can send any kind of message

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specialization

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there are 2 different levels of rules to organize speech
1. meaningless sounds to meaningful words
2. words into meaningful grammatical utterences

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duality of patterning

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language must be learned from other human beings

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cultural transmission

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speakers may not get the word always right, but the hearer decides what word it is supposed to be and believes that one

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discreetness

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four subfields of linguistics

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phonemics, morphemics, syntactics, semantics

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study of sound and how sounds are put togehter

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phonemics

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study of words and other meaningful parts of language

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morphemics

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study of grammar

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syntactics

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study of meaning

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semantics

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borrowing of cultural traits between societies; direct, forced, and indirect

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diffusion

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occurs from continuous first hand contact between groups, leads to an exchange of cultural features; two cultures blend but remain unique

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acculturation

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a culture makes a solution to a problem

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independent invention

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grooves on roof of mouth that have an acoustic purpose

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alveolar ridge

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only one sound is replaced and the words are different

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minimal pairs

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puff of air leaves the mouth

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aspirated

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contrasts such as aspirated vs unasp, about 15 total

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distinctive features

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vocal cords not vibrating
vocal cords vibrating

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unvoiced
voiced

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flow of air completely stopped

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stop

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flow of air not stopped but constricted to make air turbulence

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fricative

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smallest unit of sound that does not have its own meaning

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phoneme

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smallest unit of sound with its own meaning

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morpheme

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two kinds of morphemes
1. words
2. parts of words, cannot occur along

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free
bound

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refers to something in the world ex love run blue quickly

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lexical morpheme

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no meaning outside of the sentence, show how lexical morphemes fit together

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grammatical morphemes

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change the tense, not the type of word

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inflectional affixes

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compound where words remain apart even though meaning is not predictable from each word ex red herring

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idiom

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famous linguist, said colorless green ideas sleep furiously. (meaning has nothing to do with grammar), made transformational grammar

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noam chomsky

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suggests that in every sentence we have a basic structure produced by phrase structural rules and lexical insertion rules

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transformational grammar

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study of meaning

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semantics

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said physical changes are passed on to the next generation

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lamarck

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came up with the same idea of natural selection as darwin but didnt agree one everything

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wallace

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primate traits

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grasping, nails not claws, fingerprints

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pictures that dont look like the things they represent

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idiographs

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indentations to make symbols to make a word

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kuneiform

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each syllable has its own symbol

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syllabary

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this turns off the ability to learn language after puberty

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epigenetic rules