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Change: Renamed from Anthropological Linguistics by Jun 21 2006, 11:43 AM EDT for: More appropriate to fit the subject matter
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Change: One syllable is used for each of these words so there is only one phoneme. The word "potted" has two syllables and hence, two two phonemes: the first is 'pot-' and the second it '-ted'.Phonemes are a unitunits of sound,sound that may not be words, such
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Jun 21 2006, 9:19 AM EDT
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Change: oranizationorganization interact?Anthropologists are interested in naturally occuringoccurring behavior and speech. They use ethnographic field work to document the structure of language in its spoken and written form. Through this observation, anthropologists have used phonology, morphology, grammar, syntax and semantics as a means of exploring language. Phonology
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Jun 20 2006, 6:42 PM EDT
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Change: What the word implies. A "slut" is a common negative word, demeaning a woman. A "stud" is often used as a positive word, complementing a man.Semantics involves meaning beyond the spoken word.1) Kinesics: Gestures, facial expression, eye contact and body posture2) Proxemics: Use of touch
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Change: Semantics is the study of meaning. It attempts to the answer the question, "How is it when we use a common language, we can still come to an agreed upon understanding?"BibliographyAmnott, Joel. 2006. Anthropological Linguistics. ANT 3610 Summer A Class. The University of South Florida, Tampa.Bonvillain,
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Jun 20 2006, 6:24 PM EDT
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Change: Prefixes, suffixes and affixes are all morphemes. 1) Free Morpheme: Is not part of a word.2) Bound Morpheme: Is part of a word."Cat" is one morpheme; "cats" has two morphemes 'cat-' and '-s'. Morphemes are
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Jun 20 2006, 6:19 PM EDT
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Change: Syntax attempts to make sense of morphemes through word order. Most languages contain some variation of subject, verb and object. Subjects often come before objects. Anthropological linguists believe this to be the case because subjects have "agency," that is they are impacting the object (Bonvillain 2003, pgs. 25-26). BibliographyAmnott,
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Jun 20 2006, 6:14 PM EDT
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Change: The truthfulness of a speaker determined by markers in a statement. European languages do not typically contain veracity markers. For example, if the word !@#$ = I heard the news. !@#$^^^ = I heard the news from someone I trust.Verb Related1) Tense: Time an event occured.2) Aspect:
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Jun 20 2006, 6:03 PM EDT
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Change: Mode: Liklihood of an event's occurrence or the speaker's attitude of an event's occurrence.BibliographyAmnott, Joel. 2006. Anthropological Linguistics. ANT 3610 Summer A.A Class. The University of South Florida.Florida, Tampa.Bonvillain, Nancy. 2003. Language, Culture, and Communication: the meaning of messages. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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Jun 20 2006, 6:02 PM EDT
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Change: event occured.3) Mode: Liklihood of an event's occurrence or the speaker's attitude of an event's occurrence.BibliographyAmnott, Joel. 2006. Anthropological Linguistics. ANT 3610 Summer A. The University of South Florida.Bonvillain, Nancy. 2003. Language, Culture, and Communication: the meaning of messages. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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Jun 20 2006, 5:57 PM EDT
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Change: Romance, Slavic and Germanic languages have masculine, feminine and neuter nouns. Navajo categorizes nouns based on complex kinds of meanings, including shape and texture of objects.(Bonvillain 2003, pgs. 22-23 ). Verb RelatedBibliography Amnott, Joel. 2006. Anthropological Linguistics. ANT 3610 Summer A. The University of South Florida.Bonvillain,
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Jun 20 2006, 5:48 PM EDT
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Change: Words contain many mophemes and combine according to regular rules. Turkish is an example.3) Synthetic Languages: Many morphemes with highly complex rules, such as the Native American Mohawk language.(Bonvillain 2003, pg. 19). BibliographyBonvillain, Nancy. 2003. Language, Culture, and Communication: the meaning of messages. New
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Jun 20 2006, 5:41 PM EDT
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Change: A morpheme is a unit of sound and meaning in a word. "Cat" is one morpheme; "cats" has two morphemes 'cat-' and '-s'. Morphemes are
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Jun 20 2006, 5:32 PM EDT
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Change: 1) Stress: Accent on the syllables of words.2) Pitch: Tone that accompanies a syllable's production.3) Length: Continuation of sound.(Bonvillain 2003, pg. 15). Morphology is the study of meaning in human language thatby isanalyzing anaylzedlanguage throughunits, languagesuch units. as words. These units contain
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Jun 20 2006, 5:23 PM EDT
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Change: Morphology is the study of meaning in human language that is anaylzed through language units. These units root words and their affixes. For example, "cave" is the root word. "Caved," "concave" and "caves" all contain the root word
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Jun 20 2006, 4:51 PM EDT
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Change: allophone. allophone. Allophones are "a variant of phoneme. Allophones of the same phoneme have different sounds" (Bonvillain 2003, pg. 405). Returning to "pot" and "lot," these words differ by a single letter or a variant of the letter 'p' to 'l'. Allophones are placed into
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Jun 20 2006, 4:43 PM EDT
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Change: into two subcategories, aspirated and unaspirated. Aspirated allophones have a force of air from the samelips, butsuch withas, differentthe letter 'p'. Unaspirated allophones include the letter allophones.'s'. How are these elements organized? How do the different levels of oranization interact?BibliographyBonvillain, Nancy. 2003. Language,
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Jun 20 2006, 4:39 PM EDT
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Change: single syllable of sound. An example of a single phoneme is "pot" or "lot". One syllable is used for each of these words so there is only one phoneme. The word "potted" has two sylllables and hence, two phonemes: the first is 'pot-' and the second it '-ted'.Phonemes
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Jun 20 2006, 4:28 PM EDT
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Change: There are subcategories of phonemes. A phoneme may reveal one phonetic representation or more than one representation, called an allophone. Allophones are "a variant of
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Change: or "z" she can place her fingertips to her vocal chords and feel them vibrate. If the secondletters it"p" '-ted'.or "t" are said, there is no vibration. How are these elements organized? How do the different levels of oranization interact?BibliographyBonvillain, Nancy. 2003. Language, Culture,
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