Language Flashcards

1
Q

area of brain where language happens

A

Broca’s cap

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2
Q

area of brain that support language and speech

A

Wernecke’s cap

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3
Q

first species with articulate speech

A

H. ergaster

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4
Q

could chimps talk?

A

no

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5
Q

do Oldowan tools imply speech?

A

yes

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6
Q

are there genes associated with language?

A

yes, there are 10

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7
Q

body parts associated with human speech

A

large thoracic canal, hyoid(tongue bone), larynx and flexion (up-arching), inner ear - ossicles

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8
Q

each linguistic variety (language) is____

A

a system of rules

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9
Q

grammar is _______ dependent

A

structure

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10
Q

do any languages use counting rules?

A

no

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11
Q

Andrea Moro’s experiments

A

german speaking participants taught italian and japanese words
given real rules and fake rules
learned real language faster than fake
real language used broca’s cap

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12
Q

do sign languages develop spontaneously?

A

yes

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13
Q

what unifies all languages?

A

grammar (rules)

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14
Q

what’s the difference between a language and dialect?

A

there is no definite cutoff point

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15
Q

why do languages diversity?

A

migration, isolation, different conditions

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16
Q

how many languages today?

A

8000

17
Q

more or fewer languages 10K years ago?

A

fewer

18
Q

why do languages disappear?

A

language death, language shift, language endangergment

19
Q

what does it mean for languages to be related?

A

they evolve from the same language

20
Q

most common words to be borrowed?

A

plants and animals

21
Q

proto-language

A

earliest known ancestor to group of languages (latin)

22
Q

cognate

A

word with similar meaning and sound (ancestor word)

23
Q

does the same alphabet mean a similar language?

A

no

24
Q

baker’s paradox

A

languages are not slightly different, languages are not completely different

25
Q

point of variation in languages

A

parameters

26
Q

OV

A

object verb

27
Q

Japanese OV or VO

A

OV

28
Q

English OV or VP

A

VO

29
Q

language cipher reasons

A

who to fight, fuck, or inform

30
Q

do language and genes overlap?

A

yes

31
Q

can isoglosses infer ancestry and relatedness of languages?

A

no

32
Q

false-cognate

A

words that sound and are used the same, but lack common ancestry

33
Q

what are better words to determine ancestry of language?

A

kinship, numbers pronouns

34
Q

Languages all obey rules, but they’re all different, why?

A

universal and subjective parameters (no strings vs order of OV). languages vary within the scope of universal parameters

35
Q

How can a large language be endangered?

A

Only spoken by elderly, only taught in schools, no new participants, dwindling numbers