Language

What is language?

• Language Is a complex system of communication encompassing spoken and written forms

• Language is learned through exposure and interaction, not solely genetic

• The language has a rigid and fixed structure

What are the five characteristics of human?

• Displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, theoretical, Duality

• Displacement, productivity, descriptive, theorical

• Displacement, productivity, cultural transmission, diachronic

• Displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, duality, cultural transmission

What’s displacement?

• Most linguists would probably agree that although many animals are able to comunícate, they do not actually have language in the sense humans do.

• This is the ability to use language to talk about times, places and people other than the “here and now”.

• This means that there is generally no natural, inherent relationship between the signs…

What are the other features of human language?

• Reflexiveness, Discreteness

• Reflective,Discreet

• Discret, Reflexive

When our ancestors began to speak?

• 20,000- 30,000

• 30,000 - 100,000

• 23,000- 40,000

What are the two areas specialized in language processing?

• Broca, basal ganglia

• Broca, wernicke

• Broca, brainstem

What is cultural transmission?

• This refers to how language are acquired by our children.

• Refers to two separate layers of language working together to provide us with a pool of sounds which we can combine to communicate with one another.

• This refers that allowing us to continuously create new utterances, combining the building bricks.

which side of the brain is Broca and wernicke located on?

• Right side

• Left side

• In front

How linguistics can be studied?

• Synchronic- diachronic way

• Theoretical - diachronic way

• Theoretical- applied way

• Descriptive- prescriptive way

What is linguistic?

• Lingüístics is the branch of biology that studies the evolution of human…

• Lingüístic is the study of mathematical structures in poetry, analyzing how numbers can influence…

• Linguistic is the science of language(s).