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ANTH 2800 mid-term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ferdinand de Saussure | bottom to top, linguistic sign: conceptual image and acoustic image, also a structuralist |
| Linguistic Sign | conceptual image: pine tree Acoustic image: tree |
| Noam Chomsky | top to bottom, input to output, Input: base component, also a generativist transformational rules output: surface concept |
| paradigmatic dimension | choice |
| syntagmatic dimension | chain |
| diachronic axis | change over time |
| synchronic axis | all the variants at 1 time |
| design feature | displacement, discreteness, duality of pattern, icon, index, symbol |
| displacement | ability to recall things not immediately present |
| discreteness | formal structure with a beginning, middle and end and having meaning |
| duality of pattern | for every unit of production there is a meaning |
| structuralist | bottom to top, descriptivist |
| generativist | top to bottom, rules to generate structures, and uses the mental theory |
| bee dance | round: food within 6' sickle: food 6-20' tailwaggle: 60'-6m |
| bird communication | all birds have calls some have songs, calls are used for territorial, mating, and mobbing |
| Kanzi | Bonobo chimp, can understand passive responsives |
| Koko | has a cat named all-ball |
| Nim Chimpsky | a student of Noam Chomspky, named the chimp after him to prove that the chimp could use syntax |
| Viki | The non-human primate to speak three words, "Mama, Papa, and Cup" |
| non-human primate communication systems | uses the visual)posture and gesture), olfactory (scent marking), tactile(grooming), and vocal(barking, cough and chutter) |
| phonological processes | assimilation, insertion, deletion, strengthening,weakening |
| derivational A | adding an affix changes the part of speech |
| derivational B | adding an affix changes the lexical meaning but not the part of speech |
| inflectional | the part of speech does not change but the gender, quantity, and tense changes |