Intro to Linguistics
The systematic and scientific study of language.
What is linguistics?
Having a conversation about what you did on a trip over the summer.
What is displacement?
The reason you are taking this class.
What is... linguistics can help you learn or teach a second language?
A monkey makes a call warning the members of it's troop of a predator nearby.
What is an example of semanticity?
Term used to study how language is actually used in out day to day lives.
What is descriptive linguistics?
The ability to understand and create an infinite number of phrases/sentences, which themselves can be infinitely long.
What is productivity?
The use of language study to solve crime.
What is forensic linguistics?
A bee dances, telling other bees the location of a food source.
What is an example of displacement?
Term used when someone labels certain language as correct or incorrect.
What is prescriptivist?
The ability to tell meaningless and untrue information.
What is prevarication?
Study of how languages change over time and evolve.
What is historical linguistics?
An elephant communicates with other elephants by feeling vibrations in the ground.
What is an example of interchangeability?
A system of communication that is structured, contains vocabulary, and has all of Hockett's features.
What is a language?
Each word has a specific meaning.
What is semanticity?
Traveling to document and study languages in the wild.
What is field research?
Whales make different clicking sounds based on the whales they were surrounded by in their youth.
What is an example of cultural transmission?
A regional variation of a language.
What is a dialect?
Words do not contain innate meaning.
What is arbitrariness?
These professions use linguistics to diagnose and help people with speech and hearing issues.
What are speech pathologists and audiologists?
To send messages to other animals in their species, dogs bark, cats meow, and pigs oink.
What is an example of arbitrariness?