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This man is considered the father of American Anthropology. Teacher to other Linguistic Anthropologists.
Who is Franz Boaz?
refers to the place in the mouth where the sound is produced
What is a place of articulation?
This experiment had to do with the naming of colors. In class, we discussed where color boundaries are so far as what is recognized as red vs what is recognized as blue or green.
What are Berlin and Kay's color experiments?
principles for combining minimal units of sound+meaning into words
What is Morphology?
pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, which differ in only one phonological element
What is a minimal pair?
Student of Franz Boas. Researched Native American languages. Considered father of Linguistic Anthropology.
Who is Edward Sapir?
The amount of closure created when making a sound
What is a manner of articulation?
Concluded that Hopi time is more fluid while SAE time is more concrete.
What is Whorf's example of SAE time vs Hopi time?
the study of speech sounds
what is phonetics?
The type of sign relation in which the relationship between the sign and the thing that it stands for is arbitrary or a matter of convention.
what is symbolic?
Famous for his "Theory of a sign"
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure?
denoting a type of consonant made by the friction of breath in a narrow opening, producing turbulent airflow.
What is a fricative?
The miscommunication of the term Empty leads to fires in this study.
What is Whorf's example of empty gas barrels?
This occurs when vocal cords are brought together to make a buzzing sound
what is voicing?
a language viewed as an abstract system used by a speech community, in contrast to the actual linguistic behavior of individuals.
what is Langue?
Studied indigenous ancient and modern Mesoamerican languages (Maya, Aztec, Hopi, Nahuatl, began reconstructing Uto-Aztecan). Proposed the concept of the allophone. Best known for his hypothesis with Sapir
who is Benjamin Lee Whorf?
a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another (as in coin, loud, and side)
what is a diphthong?
This morphology inflects an existing word. This
includes declining nouns, conjugating verbs, and adding
number (such as singular/plural) markers or gender (such
as male/female/neuter) markers.
what is Inflection?
The literal meaning of a word without any emotion
what is denotation?
Known for the term Universal Grammar
Who is Noam Chomsky?
a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth
what is an affricate?
With this morphology, we are deriving what feels like a “new word.” There is often (but not always) a change in the part of speech.
What is derivational?
“the fixed and invariant principles that constitute the human language faculty and the parameters of variation associated with them”
What is Universal Grammar?