Long ago, Taikomol, He who goes alone, made the earth from a piece of coiled basket. Taikomol the creator walked with Coyote throughout the land. The creator laid out sticks at night which turned into people upon daybreak. As Taikomol made different people, they were given different customs, modes of life and a different language. Finally, the creator ascended to the sky where he still is.
A take from the Yuki people of California
Learning Outcomes
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- Understand the defining characteristics of human language
- Explore the concept of language families and their typology
- Describe the research techniques employed by psycholinguists
Activities for week 1
- Read Chapter 1
- Language Change
- Language Families
- Research Methods in Psycholinguistics
- Themes and Variations
Learning Activities
Living Language
- Make a list of the many ways in which you use language in daily life.
- Imagine how you might accomplish these tasks if language was not available to you.
- Consider how language may have helped us survive in our ancestral past.
