[LMB] SP: TSK:B Chapter 17

Jim Parish jparish at siue.edu
Wed Jan 3 21:24:05 GMT 2007


CatMtn at aol.com wrote:
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> Now you've made me wonder if [Lakewalkers] use facial expressions when talking--if  
> the people they usually talk to are accustomed to using grounds to understand  
> emotions, what would be the point of frowning, smiling, or other facial  
> expressions, since the person addressed would already know how they felt?   It would 
> make them seem inhumanly calm to most farmers, if so.

Hmm. Do we know how early in life groundsense arises? Most linguistic 
traits - and I assume that would include paralinguistic traits like facial 
expressions and body language - are more or less set pretty early on.

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