LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Morpheme, Noam Chomsky, Universal Grammar
16 Jan 2018
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Grammar - rules and constraints that govern language. Is the mental system that allows people to form and interpret the words and sentences of their language. Everybody who knows language has a mental grammar (unconscious knowledge of language, don"t know how we learned it) Kids learn it quickly without enough input: poverty of the stimulus . Hypothesis: some properties of language are universal and innate. Mental grammar is not the same as universal grammar. Kids can learn language in ways adults cant. Kids have access to ug up until a certain age. Mental grammar is not a controversial concept. Ug & critical period are controversial proposals. Is the study of the system of categories (walked, walk, walking, walker) Morpheme: smallest linguistic form that has a meaning or grammatical function. A xes: bound morphemes (i. e singing or untie. Is the study of rules and patterns governing the combination of words into phrases and sentences (internal structure of sentences)
