LIN 2381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Diaphoneme, Nonpast Tense, Inflection
15 Dec 2017
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Language - a mental system governed by rules, highly structured, operates by principles. order one way language is structured. Inflection (morphology -> cases) = word form (conveys different meaning) Internal used to be synthetic now analytical (difficult to explain) External usually an event that occurred in history. (norman conquest > changes in vocabulary) More synthetic: agglutinative many morphemes per word (japanese, korean, etc , fusional many morphemes overlay (russian, french etc , polysynthetic sentence-words (first nation languages) All spoken languages are based on complex, variable structured systmes that are continuously evoloving. The key heuristic or analytical tool for studying linguistic variation is the linguistic variation. Originally, the linguistic variable was conceived in temrs of semantic or referential equivalence (referential equivalence = menaing the same thing) Phonological variables variations in the pronunciation of identical morphology. A linguistic variable is usually denoted within parentheses. Vowels describable by tongue height, frontness, roundness and tenseness. Most natural development principle: final vowels often disappear.
