100421 LG week 4 ch 4 animal and human Name No Group

1. What do you hear from these animals? Are they communicating some message
intentionally or unintentionally? How do you know?

2. Is it possible that an animal could learn to communicate with humans using lg?
How do you know?

3. Are the following signals of communication used by human beings intentionally

or unintentionally? Why?
a. I’d like to apply for the position at the cram school.
b. 愛上你是我的錯 ……不要讓我一錯再錯
c. have a cold (sneeze)
d. not at ease (shift around)
e. disorganized (unmatched socks)
f. foreigner (strange accent)

4. Which person has a distinguishing (使..出眾的) feature? Why?

5. What is the similarity and difference between reflexivity and displacement?

6. Why do we say that three kinds of communication for bees has displacement in
an extremely limited form?

7. Does your name have a special meaning? If you change your name, do you also
change yourself?

8. Do you know this movie or novel? What is it? Which title do you like best? Why?

9. What’s the difference between the water from both 長白山 and 白頭山?

10. Why do we say that the onomatopoeic words (擬聲字) have a less arbitrary
connection?

11. Why do we say that animal communication has the quality of arbitrariness?

12. What do you think of this? Why can animals do the action? Can they understand
the message?
13. What are the major factors of training animals to use human lg?

14. What are the merits and defects of the different symbol systems used with
chimps?

15. Which would you use if you could teach lg to a chimp? Why?

16. child: red book, mommy lunch, go store, hit ball, book table)
Washoe: baby mine, go flower, drink red, tickle Washoe, more fruit
Compare them. Do they do the same linguistic thing?

17. Why can’t chimps learn to talk?

18. Why don’t we have an objective and non-controversial (非矛盾的) definition of

what counts as ‘using lg’?