Ant 2410 exam 2 fau - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

primary means of communication (spoken or written) - Language Language is transmitted through learning as a part of ________ - Enculturation Written form of language is about _______ years old - 6,000 Language allows_________ to invoke elaborate images, discuss past and future, and share experiences - Humans Wild primates communicate using a ________ - Call system _________ learned 4 words (in 7 years): mama, papa, up, and cup. - Viki Chimps and gorillas have a great capac...

________ views linguistic practices as symbolic capital that people, if trained properly, can convert into economic and social capital - Bordieau _________ believed that ethnic boundaries are most stable and enduring when groups occupy different ecological niches - Barth _________ believed that human brain contains limited set of rules for organizing language - Chomsky _________ irrigate their fields with canals from rivers, streams, springs, and ponds. They have also created a s...

AAVE speakers use ____________ to eliminate verb "to be" from their speech - Answer Copula deletion examines long-term variation of speech by studying protolanguages and daughter languages - Answer Historical linguistics