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Displacement
Duality
Productivity
Arbitrariness
Displacement
Duality
Productivity
Arbitrariness
Displacement
Duality
Productivity
Arbitrariness
Displacement
Duality
Productivity
Arbitrariness
It is actually without much meaning
We make up the rules of language as we go along
A language has no relationship to the culture that uses it
It uses symbolic representations of meanings
Entirely a cultural phenomenon
Largely biologically based
An interaction between biological potential and cultural input
A built-in instinctive set of responses set off by particular environmental stimuli
Morphemes
Phonemes
Alleles
Letters
Morphemes
Phonemes
Alleles
Letters
Phoneme
Morpheme
Prefix
Sound unit
Open
Arbitrary
Symbolic
Closed
Sources of food
Sources of danger
Emotional states
Information dealing with sexual activity and reproduction
Endocasts of fossil brains
Examination of the cells of ancient brains
Reconstruction of vocal apparatus
Logical guesses as to when a complex language was required
Apes
Homo erectus
Modern human children
Modern human adults
Australopithecus
Homo erectus
Archaic Homo sapiens
Anatomically modern Homo sapiens
Differences in their vocal tracts
Differences in their facial muscles
Differences in the basic structure of their brains
Differences in their tongue muscles
Chimpanzees
Bonobos
Baboons
Orangutans
They lead complex lives requiring such brains
They are closely related to humans
They are clearly on the way to eventually evolving into humanlike species
They use complex communication in the wild only it hasn't been observed
Millions
About 3000
Around 150
About a dozen main ones with lots of subgroups and dialects
That are similar in different languages because of borrowing
That are similar in different languages because of coincidence
That are similar in different languages because of common descent
That differ among languages and so show those languages are not related
Body parts
Scientific ideas and technologies
Numbers
Family relationships
Phonemes
Morphemes
Rules of grammar
Word meanings and categories
A folk taxonomy
Cultural relativity
World view
Phonemic inventory
Folk taxonomy
Ethnography
Ethnosemantics
Descriptive linguistics
They have more scientific knowledge about snow
There are more kinds of snow in the Arctic
Snow is more important to them
They have slightly a different visual perception of their world
The natural environment in which they live
How far they have progressed evolutionarily
Their natural environment and cultural history in interaction
The structures of their brains and sense organs