PSYC 336 Lecture 11: PSYC 336-Class notes
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Hockett"s design: the bold are the ones to focus on. Their the core in understanding what language is: semanticity: the study of meaning. When you put sounds together, you get a meaning: arbitrariness: there is not necessary link between sounds and that meaning. example d-o- g and dog. It doesn"t bare any resemblance to the actual thing. There is no necessary relationship (bagel could of been called cake, or skis : non-arbitariness: meow woof - meant to sound what it means. Anything that is necessary to say i bought six bagels once we decide what we"re going to call something in our logging, it becomes necessary to say that. Plural words, or -ing words: discreteness, displacement, productivity/ generativity: colourless green idea sleep furiously . It"s not that you memorize all the sentences, we have tools to create novel sentences from bits and pieces: what do the rules look like? like lego, phrase structure (ps) rules:
