Linguistics Flashcards
Language? What is it? Biases in language?
what are the Language Acquisitions Device
biologically based innate capacity for language
suggests kids are born understanding universal rules of grammar
rules apply when learning mother tongue
nature vs. nurter debate
what is historical linguistics?
which compares language structures to see how languages are related and to see how people migrated
what is Sociolinguistics?
how people use language within a culture to express status and context
what is Structural Linguistics
how sounds are put together in order to create meaning
Noam Chomsky theory
biologically based innate capacity for language
introduced in 1960s
supporting theory for Chomsky theory
5000 languages of the world have been found to share rules and principles
What are languages and the biases against some
examples
different from our own we may think it is sloppy
vocal fry= hollywood influence with stupid characters
have a biases that those people who speak in a vocal fry are unitelligent
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
The idea that language influences thought - the words available to us to change how we understand our experiences
who developed the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and when?
Developed by Benjamin Lee Whorf and his teacher, Edward Sapir (1929)
supports for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- french grammar rule vous vs. tu
- russia able to tell the colors faster than most due to different names for shades of blue
