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Protolanguage
The tree of language and how languages have branched off from previous languages forming language families
Pragmatics
A study of language that looks at how context affects meaning of language
Lexicon
Words within a language
William Jones
Noticed Latin and Greek came from Sanscrit
Derivation
Forming a word from another word
Saussure
A father of linguistics
Said language was arbitrary so all languages work in a similar way
Niche Construction
When animal alters environment to make it livable
Pidgin
A language that is used between two people that don't speak the same official language
Meme
A cultural gene
Neuronal recycling
Allows humans to acquire new information and adapt to evolving language
Monogenesis
Theory that all humans are decedents from a single pair of ancestors
Polygenesis
Theory that all humans come from multiple ancestors
Semantics
Study of language that focuses on meanings
Morphology
The study of how language has changed through the years
Ethology
The study of animal behavior
Archaeology of Cognition
The study of how ancestors thought based on archeological evidence
Phonology
The study of the organization of sounds within language
Syllable
Way of organizing sound patterns within a word
Collocation
Words that can be replaced by another word that means the same thing
Syntax
Arranging words and phrases to form sentences
Cultural learning
How cultures pass down certain things such as language
Acheulean technology
A stone tool technology found with homo erectus
Altriciality
Needing to be nourished after birth
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Why We Talk
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Why We Talk
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12/13/2013, 4:36:15 AM
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