Protolanguage Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Darwin's musical protolanguage hypothesis - correct answer language and music have the same origin but serve 2 different functions, language originated from an emotional signal system based on the imitation/modification of environmental sounds Behaviorism theory of language learning (Skinner) - correct answer babies just imitate, don't understand grammatical rules imitation-reinforcement-repetition-habituation Criticisms: overemphasizes external factors, ignores role of learner ...

Chapter 10: Language Multiple-Choice Questions 10.1-1. The research by Bellin and colleagues using fMRI indicated that when we respond to human speech rather than to other sounds a. only the left temporal lobe shows a contrastive response to these types of sound. b. only the right temporal lobe shows a contrastive response to these types of sound. c. both right and left temporal lobes showed a contrastive response to these types of sound. d. both right and left temporal lobes are shown to anal...

Includes Grimm's Law description and rules. Vocabulary that is related to basic historical linguistics and reconstruction. Describes a language family and the proto-language.