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1 - Animal Communication And Human Language Flashcards

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Ethologist

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Scientist who studies animal behaviour

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Communication

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Any behaviour intended to influence another organism

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Conspecific

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Same species

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Honey bee waggle experiment

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Changed location of nectar source

Von Frisch 1967

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Vervet alarm calls

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Leopard, eagle, snake

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Diana alarm calls

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Leopard, eagle

Recorded vocalizations

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Holophrase

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Single vocalization that refers to entire situation not specifics here and now

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Primacy of speech

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Almost all language is in the spoken mode

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Arbitrary symbol

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Bears no resemblance to what it refers to

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Iconic symbol

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Clear resemblance to what it refers to (waggle dance)

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Duality of patterning

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Structuring process that takes units at a lower level and combines according to rules into new units at higher level

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Phonemes

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Meaningless speech sounds serves as building blocks

Phonology

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Morphemes

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Basic unit of meaning in a language

Morphology

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Syntax

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Set of rules for ordering words and phrases into sentences

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Chunking

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Increases working memory that groups meaningless items into larger meaningful units

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Homo erectus

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1.8 mya - 200 kya

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Recursion

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Process of extending a pattern by placing it inside itself

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Centrality of syntax

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Chomsky view that ability to organize words into phrases and sentences according to recursive rules is distinguishing feature of language

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KE family

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Language disorder, disruption of FOXP2

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Mother tongue hypothesis

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Model of language evolution proposing that maternal vocalizations took on meaning over the course of many generations

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Broca’s aphasia

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Disjointed or ungrammatical speech

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