ANTH Exam 2 - Review 2 Flashcards
How is human language is unique among animals primarily in its complexity? (Champec)
Most successful at learning signs-> learned over 500 signs
Had baby and taught here 55 signs with no human interactions -
What are the Four primary attributes of language?
- Tremendous intraspecific Diversity
- Language is based on symbols
- Multiplicity of patterning
- Displacement -
What is the ability to refer to something that is not immediately present or even abstract? (such as Heaven or Hell)
Displacement -
What is the smallest unit of a language?
Phonemes -
How many different phonemes are in the English language?
42 -
What are the smallest units of language which have a semantic meaning?
Morphemes -
What are the 2 types of morphemes?
- free
- bound -
What is an example of a free morpheme ?
a word such as girl or boy that is not dependent -
What is an example of a bound morpheme?
must be bound to a free morpheme (such as “s”) -
What is the ability to combine and recombine a limited number of phonemes into billions of combinations in order to express thoughts?
Multiplicity of patterning -
What is intraspecific communication?
the interchange or transmission of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs from one member of a species to another member of the same species.
How diverse is intraspecific communication among humans?
Tremendous intraspecific diversity -
- humans communicate in thousands of languages
What is intraspecific communication among animals?
o Animals have one common language that exists over geographic areas
In social scenes, what is the only safe place to touch a woman?
above the elbow. Other types of touching are not acceptable.
What are gestures, volume, and repetition that is the meaning beyond the word spoken?
Linguistic frames -
(for example, how a parent speaks to a child)
What is word order (that varies from one language to the next)?
syntax -
What are the 2 broad avenues about non verbal communication?
proxemics and kinesics -
What is the study of the use of space, both private and public, both between cultures and within cultures?
Proxemics -
In the US, what is the approximate amount of personal space?
3 feet -
What is the approximate amount of greeting space in the US?
20-12 feet -
What is the process through which we perceive and process information?
Cognition -
What is an example of cognition?
folk taxonomies and monolexemic color terms -
What is the study of body language, how people use the body and the info they convey, and is highly situation/status dependent?
Kinesics -
What affects kinesics?
marriage, gender, clothes organizational membership, age, wealth, status, situation -