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CHAPTER 1: LANGUAGE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - but this does not mean they have acquired a human language
- - - - prestige and standard dialects do not have standard grammar
  - - - acquire them just as hearing children acquire spoken languages, going through the same linguistic stages, including the babbling stage
  - - - grammatical= conforms the rules of the grammar
      - ungrammatical= deviates from the rules in some way
- - - - the letters house (English) signify the concept 🏘
        =maison (French)
        =casa (Spanish)
    - - bolna
        =speak (Hindu-Urdu)
        =aching (Russian)
        
        pet
        =domestic animal (English)
        =fart (Catalan)
    - - relationship between form and meaning is not arbitrary (meaning)
        
        bringing the hand to the mouth to mean
        “eating,” as in miming, would be nonarbitrary as a sign.
    - - imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
        
        buzz and murmur
      - pronunciations suggest their meanings
  - - - known by the way speakers of one language pronounce words from another language
    - - Example: French people pronounce English words such as this and that as zis and zat
  - - - may run out of breath, lose track of what they have said and die before they are finished