LIN101H5 Lecture 1: LIN101H5 Lecture 1 - Intro to General Linguistics The Sounds of Language
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Lin101h5 lecture 1 - intro to general linguistics: the sounds of language. Siri; improve speech synthesis (create machines to sound more human-like). What"s a linguist: linguistic isn"t about specific languages, but it"s about languages in general (e. g. , structures, biology, etc, linguists are not (necessarily) polyglots and are definitely not grammar police . Meet a linguist: first name, jessamyn, rhymes with specimen, last name, schertz, is pronounced as shirts, hobbies: play music (violin, viola, and piano), cooking + eating, hiking, research is about phonetics and how we perceive them. Language is creative: sentences that is unlikely to be said, there are infinitely many sentences one can create. Limits of creativity: sentences must make sense. Linguistic competence: what one knows internally about a language. Internal grammar: rules and grammar internal knowledge acquired from childhood (not learned in school, focus on phonological (sound patterns)
