CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Nicaraguan Sign Language, Greylag Goose, Bound And Unbound Morphemes
10 Apr 2017
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Language language: a form of communication, whether spoken, written, or signed, that is based on a system of symbols and rules for arranging those symbols communication systems enable information exchange. Another function of language: to express and manipulate thought. Animals clearly communicate with one another a dog marking a fire hydrant a monkey calling a warning to the troop a bee indicating to the other bees where the good flowers are. These behaviours serve to send signals relating to dominance, courtship, ownership, alarm, etc. Verveet monkeys: http youtu. be/3lsf83rhkfc: many attempts to teach animals asl. But critics argue that there is no system of rules governing their use of signs. Language: natural languages have the following properties: Lexicon: vocabulary consisting of a finite number of words. Syntactic categories: categories to which the words in the lexicon belong. (e. g. , nouns, determiners, prepositions, conjunctions, verbs, adjectives, adverbs). Syntactic rules: rules determining how words of the language can be combined.
