Lang rights midterm Flashcards
Accent
How the words sound
Dialect
Sentence Structure
Variety
Catch all
Language + Problems
Mutually understandable speech, Dialects that can’t understand different areas OR Different languages that can understand each other
Geographic and social continuums
The closer to (The border/ middle class) you get, the more the other languages can understand each other. Not a hard cutoff.
Saphir whorf main idea
Something about one’s language affects how you see the world
Issues with testing Saphir Wharf
Difficult to test/ prove. We did d vs t but that’s about it. For ex snow
How Saphir Wharf can be used
Racism ex: Chinese people don’t care about future
Morpheme
Smallest building block of language that has meaning
Sound inventory
The amount of sounds one can make after learning a language
Word Order
SVO vs OVS the way the words are structured
Rebus Principle
A language with a lot of homophones. Use a concrete object to represent abstract idea (ex: Eye=I, as in self)
Acrophonic Principle
Use the first sound of concrete objects. (Ex: Hand=H)
Alphabet
Vowels + Constants are equal
Abjad
Constants only
Abugida
Add marker to constantan to indicate vowel (Ex: A mark above the K= Ka)
Pictographic systems
Each phrase has a symbol (Ex: Chinese) and radicals
Syllabary
All syllables have their own sound (Ex: —=KO, |=Plat
Albabetic systems
Each sound has a symbol
Difference between written and spoken language
Written=Harder to know tone, needs more instruction
Spoken=Learn by surroundings, not as ambiguous
Religion correlation
Religious history often dictates what language to use. polish vs russian. Russia’s Church-Cyrillic vs Catholic Polish Church-latin
Naming Conventions
Ancestors, Birth order, Saint, What you want them to be like
Last Name Naming Conventions
Location, Occupancy, Ancestry, Patronymic-After father’s first name
Assumptions of names
How old they are, gender, religion, race, language
