Quiz _1 Study Guide (151 Clemente)(1).docx

Quiz #1 Study Guide (151 Clemente)

HOW TO SUCCEED IN THIS COURSE

1. Study together in small cooperative groups,

2. Come to every class having completed all assigned reading beforehand, 3. Ask questions and contribute observations in class,

SPECIFICS

BONVILLAIN 1

– sociolinguistics

– linguistic anthropology vs. sociolinguistics vs. linguistics

DURANTI

– definition of linguistic anthropology,

– linguistic relativity,

– speech community,

– competence vs. performance.

– Language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice

– linguistic anthropology vs. sociolinguistics vs. linguistics

BONVILLAIN 2:

– Phonetics

• voiced/voiceless,

• place and manner of articulation,

– phoneme (definition),

• minimal pair

• allophones in predictable complementary sound environment distribution vs. • unpredictable free variation,

– Morpheme (definition

• types

– language typologies

• (isolating

• agglutinating

• polysynthetic

– inflection (noun declension and verbal conjugation) vs. word order,

– syntax (types of word order location, subject, object, verb),

– semantics (agent & acted upon),

– sign language

• four parameters

• iconicity

• word order

HUMAN LANGUAGE SERIES VIDEO PART 1 “COLORLESS GREEN IDEAS SLEEP FURIOUSLY”: – word definition;

– independence of meaning and syntax;

– form-meaning arbitrariness;

– universal innate and generative aspects of grammar

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