Psamtik's experiment was that he placed two children in a sheapeards hut completely cut off from any type of language. He hoped to be able to study the development of languages, he hoped that these two children would develop thier own language to comunicate with each other. When the children said the word "bekos" for bread he imidiatly compared this to another older language and did not do more research on the subject itself. He technically did not learn much becuase he did not let the experiament continue on to see if these children did infact creatre thier own language or even use one similar to an already invented one.
2. Rymer claims on pg. 5 that "while his experiment was flawed in fulfilling its declared intention...it embodied both the theological questions and the practical quandaries that still bedevil the discipline." Where did Abel hint at this same concept?
2. Rymer claims on pg. 5 that "while his experiment was flawed in fulfilling its declared intention...it embodied both the theological questions and the practical quandaries that still bedevil the discipline." Where did Abel hint at this same concept?
Abel hinted at this same concept when he refered to the idea of... i honestly have no idea.
3. Why do Linguistics and Astronomy "constitute an unlikely sisterhood"?
3. Why do Linguistics and Astronomy "constitute an unlikely sisterhood"?
Linguistics and Astronomy "constitue an unlikely sisterhood" because they have many similarities. They both have to be observational rather than having some type of experamentation to them. Astronomy because the stars are far away and linguistics becuase the topics are just "to human"
4. Why was the Social Worker concerned about the young girl that came to her Welfare Office with her mother?
4. Why was the Social Worker concerned about the young girl that came to her Welfare Office with her mother?
The social worker was concerned because the girl stood unnaturally stooped holding her hands up, she felt that it was a case of autism in a child that must have been around 6 or 7.
5. Consider the history of Linguistics outlined in Chapter 5. Please explain how the study of language grew from the religious to the biological and finally to the psychological.
5. Consider the history of Linguistics outlined in Chapter 5. Please explain how the study of language grew from the religious to the biological and finally to the psychological.
Lingustics started at religiously. People used to go into the rain forest with the bible and learn languages from using the bible to interact with the people speaking the language. People felt that language was a divine creation. Then Descartes came up with the idea that the soul was independent of the body, and alot of the brain. From here in the late ninteenth centuary a large amount of questions about human's language had found thier way under physchology, "a discipline the questions had helped to create"
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