9882 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Performance, Noun, Vocal Tract
20 Jun 2018
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Week 1 tutorial – Linguistics for Educators 9882
Monday, 12 February 2018
What is language ?
Knowing the sound system of that language
Knowing words in that language
Knowing sentences / non sentences
Knowledge of the sound system & words
Knowing what sounds or signs are in the language and what sounds are not
Knowing what sounds may start a word, end a word and follow each other
Speakers of English often mispronounce Nkrumah (the name of a former president of
Ghana)
Knowing that certain sound sequences signify certain concepts or meanings
Arbitrary relationship between form (sounds) and meaning (concept) e.g. house
Knowing a language = being able to produce and understand new sentences (creativity of language).
Knowing a language = being able to distinguish well-formed (grammatical) from ill-informed
(ungrammatical).
What do we learn?
1. Discourse level - what are the rules for the context?
2. Syntax
3. Semantics
4. Morphemes - run, runner, running, etc.
5. Phonemes - the sounds
Linguistic competence = knowledge of what we know
Linguistic performance = linguistic behaviour, how we use our knowledge in actual speech
production.
A Vowel is a speech sound that does not obstruct your vocal tract when pronouncing.
A Consonant is s basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can
be combined with a vowel to form a syllable.
A Syllable will ALWAYS have a vowel in it. Always go with the oral sound - for example, String has
one syllable because we say it outload like that
Nouns:
A noun is a person, place, object, action, idea, quality, feeling.
A noun names all things, including things we cannot see, touch, smell, or hear.
There are rules for using nouns as singular and plural, none of which use apostrophes.
"My writing is bad", here the word Writing is used as a noun. "Running is good for my
health", here the word Running is used as a noun.
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Document Summary
Week 1 tutorial linguistics for educators 9882. Knowing the sound system of that language. Knowing what sounds or signs are in the language and what sounds are not. Knowing what sounds may start a word, end a word and follow each other. Speakers of english often mispronounce nkrumah (the name of a former president of. Knowing that certain sound sequences signify certain concepts or meanings. Arbitrary relationship between form (sounds) and meaning (concept) e. g. house. Knowing a language = being able to produce and understand new sentences (creativity of language). Knowing a language = being able to distinguish well-formed (grammatical) from ill-informed (ungrammatical). Linguistic competence = knowledge of what we know. Linguistic performance = linguistic behaviour, how we use our knowledge in actual speech production. A vowel is a speech sound that does not obstruct your vocal tract when pronouncing.
