LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Universal Grammar, Arbitrariness, Cultural Learning

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1001
• Professor: Anne Laubstein

Document Summary

All the knowledge you have that allows you to use your language. Competence (linguistics/grammar) vs performance (sometimes grammar doesn"t match performance) Morphology: morph (structure)- science of structure of words. Hockett"s design features: arbitrariness (you cannot predict the meaning of a word from its sound, duality (the fact that there are 2 aspects 1. ^ displacement requires semanticity because you need the ability to refer to anything to refer to the future. Like our innate capacity to grow arms and fingers rather than wings.