LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Possessive, International Phonetic Alphabet, Linguistic Description
4 Sep 2016
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Liz smeets liz. smeets@mcgill. ca 1085 ave dr. penfield, rm. Language as science- chomsky- all languages are complex rule governed systems, innate. Language and society- how does language interact with class/gender/ethnicity. Function: knowing how to communicate/express self in language. Form: combining the words and rules of the language. Tacit knowledge: implicit rules; knoep and kdvo do not look like english words, but frink looks plausible enough, as the sounds align with english ones. Niuean: language from island of niue, spoken by 6500 people (moa=chicken) Rule: isn"t possible to have multiple consonants in a row. Rule: repeat a verb twice to express that the action is prolonged. Apo" = to beg, apoapo" = to keep begging. Rule: verb precedes subject, which precedes the the object. Kua molomolo he tagata e kakia he moa . Kept squeezing the man the neck of the chicken (he strangled the chicken) Language vs languages: language = linguistic properties shared by all languages/dialects.
