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What is a universal human trait?
What is a universal human trait?
- Athletic ability
- Language capacity (correct)
- Ability to draw and paint
- Ability to play musical instruments
What do linguists study?
What do linguists study?
- Geometry and trigonometry
- History and literature
- Semantics, grammar, and pragmatics (correct)
- Biology and chemistry
What enables communication, adaptation, cooperation, and inner dialogue?
What enables communication, adaptation, cooperation, and inner dialogue?
- Facial expressions
- Eye contact
- Body language
- Language (correct)
What allows us to propose a meaning, ask about the meaning of a symbol, and agree?
What allows us to propose a meaning, ask about the meaning of a symbol, and agree?
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What do human groups have to do to invent and agree on the meaning of words?
What do human groups have to do to invent and agree on the meaning of words?
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Study Notes
- Language is a uniquely human capacity.
- All human cultures have specific languages.
- Language capacity is a universal human trait.
- Language acquisition is innate and genetically shaped.
- Children come into the world predisposed to learn language.
- Language enables communication, adaptation, cooperation, and inner dialogue.
- Symbols are arbitrary and combined via grammar rules.
- Linguists study semantics, grammar, and pragmatics.
- To invent and agree on the meaning of words, human groups have to metarepresent.
- Metarepresentation allows us to propose a meaning, ask about the meaning of a symbol, and agree.
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