ANTH 230 – LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM 1
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linguistic anthropology - ANSWER: anthropological study of languages
anthropology - ANSWER the study of humans through four different
approaches: linguistic, biological, cultural, and archaeology
universal properties of language - ANSWER • Modularity
• Discreteness
• Constituency
• Recursion
• Productivity
• Arbitrariness
• Reliance on context
• Variability
constituency - ANSWER a word or a group of words that function as a single
unit within a hierarchical structure.
Discreteness - ANSWER the fact that the human language is composed of sets
of distinct sounds
productivity - ANSWER the degree to which native speakers of a language use
a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation. It compares
grammatical processes that are in frequent use to less frequently used ones that
tend towards lexicalization.
arbitrariness - ANSWER the absence of any natural or necessary connection
between a word's meaning and its sound or form
, reliance on context - ANSWER The meaning of a sentence depends crucially
on the context in which it is uttered
variability - ANSWER there is more than 1 way to say the same thing
prescription vs. description - ANSWER prescribe is saying what language
should be, you must speak this way to be correct...describe is describing how
people use the language, what they do, WITHOUT evaluating whether it is right
or wrong
language - ANSWER a finite system of elements + principles that make it
possible to construct sentences to do particular communicative jobs
grammatical vs communicative competence - ANSWER grammatical uses the
correct words in general, but communicative is appropriate words in the right
time at the right place. ex: "what time is it?" "I went to school!", this is
grammatically correct but not communicatively appropriate
content of linguistics - ANSWER phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
pragmatics
Phonetics - ANSWER study of sounds
Phonology - ANSWER study of sounds in the mind, different from auditory
information and motor instructions
sounds and mental sounds - ANSWER phonetics and phonology
vocal tract - ANSWER main parts of the body (in the throat) that produce
sound, used by the body to produce language
features of articulation - ANSWER pulmonic egressive, voicing, aspiration,
nasal, or oral
pulmonic egressive - ANSWER the airstream mechanism used to produce all
English sounds: the lungs are pushing the air out.
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linguistic anthropology - ANSWER: anthropological study of languages
anthropology - ANSWER the study of humans through four different
approaches: linguistic, biological, cultural, and archaeology
universal properties of language - ANSWER • Modularity
• Discreteness
• Constituency
• Recursion
• Productivity
• Arbitrariness
• Reliance on context
• Variability
constituency - ANSWER a word or a group of words that function as a single
unit within a hierarchical structure.
Discreteness - ANSWER the fact that the human language is composed of sets
of distinct sounds
productivity - ANSWER the degree to which native speakers of a language use
a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation. It compares
grammatical processes that are in frequent use to less frequently used ones that
tend towards lexicalization.
arbitrariness - ANSWER the absence of any natural or necessary connection
between a word's meaning and its sound or form
, reliance on context - ANSWER The meaning of a sentence depends crucially
on the context in which it is uttered
variability - ANSWER there is more than 1 way to say the same thing
prescription vs. description - ANSWER prescribe is saying what language
should be, you must speak this way to be correct...describe is describing how
people use the language, what they do, WITHOUT evaluating whether it is right
or wrong
language - ANSWER a finite system of elements + principles that make it
possible to construct sentences to do particular communicative jobs
grammatical vs communicative competence - ANSWER grammatical uses the
correct words in general, but communicative is appropriate words in the right
time at the right place. ex: "what time is it?" "I went to school!", this is
grammatically correct but not communicatively appropriate
content of linguistics - ANSWER phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
pragmatics
Phonetics - ANSWER study of sounds
Phonology - ANSWER study of sounds in the mind, different from auditory
information and motor instructions
sounds and mental sounds - ANSWER phonetics and phonology
vocal tract - ANSWER main parts of the body (in the throat) that produce
sound, used by the body to produce language
features of articulation - ANSWER pulmonic egressive, voicing, aspiration,
nasal, or oral
pulmonic egressive - ANSWER the airstream mechanism used to produce all
English sounds: the lungs are pushing the air out.
