LING 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dog Bite, Anise, Emergentism
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Pragmatics - the transmittal of info to others in socially appropriate ways. Being able to make requests, to comment, to be coherent in convo. Phonology - the sound system of the language. Being able to distinguish b/n /vat/ and /bat/, recognising that /narg/ could be an eng word but /ngar/ cannot. Lexicon - vocab & processes of derivational morphology. Knowing the meaning of words and how to form new words (eg if narg is a verb then a narger is someone who nargs) Morphology & syntax - the systems that govern inflectional morphology & word combi. Knowing the diff b/n man bites dog & dog bites man, knowing that man bite dog and dog bite man are both ungrammatical. Behaviorism - believes that change in behavior occurs in response to the consequences of prior behavior. Cognitivism - we cannot understand behavior without understanding what is going on inside the mind of the organism producing the behavior.
