Language

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

 

Country
 Section 1 Section 2
Greece
2
8
Italy
2
12
Ireland
3
11
England
2
7
France
1
1
Germany  
2
Finland  
1
Scotland
3
Norway  
1
Netherlands  
2
Europe (in general)  
11
 
 
Japan
1
7
Tibet
1
2
India
1
1
Nepal  
2
China  
3
Thailand  
1
Hong Kong  
1
Korea(s)  
1
Southeast Asia  
1
Asia (in general)  
1
     
Egypt
2
3
Africa  
1
Israel
1
1
Jordan
1
1
Iran
1
   
Australia  
16
Fiji  
2
New Zealand
4
8
     
Bahamas  
1
Caribbean  
3
Mexico  
3
Brazil  
1
Costa Rica
1
2
Chile
1
  
Cuba  
1
Peru  
1
New York City
1
  
Hawaii
1
2
Alaska  
2
Wyoming  
1
Las Vegas  
1
Northern Minnesota  
1
Green Bay (Packers game)  
1
     
Everywhere  
4

 

 

HORSE, CHICKEN, COW

COMMUNICATION (send and receive messages)

LANGUAGES

4000 - 5000 EVER, 2000 NOW

test is mutual intelligibility (if you can understand each other it's a dialect, if you can't it is a different language

http://home.wanadoo.nl/arjenbolhuis/language-family-trees/

phone = sound

phoneme = sound which distinguishes meaning

 

caught

cot

dawn

don

talk

tock

phones, allophones, phonemes

English has 35 phonemes; languages use between 10 and 70.

 

February 1, 2005

[on Thursday, you will be meeting with your team. Please read your team assignment, so you begin to make plans for your acting event.]

morph = smallest unit of sound which has meaning e.g. small - est, mean-ing (2 morphs each)

morpheme = group of sounds which have same meaning e.g. in- or un- or non = NOT

LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS

1. Culturally transmitted (Learned, shared and taught)

2. Use sounds (Sign language is derived from spoken language)

3. Infinite and productive (vs. call systems)

4. Symbolic (no necessary connection between sound and what it stands for) e.g. water

5. displacement

horse, chicken cow results

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis