ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phoneme, Minimal Pair, Contrastive Distribution

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ivan Kalmar

Document Summary

Any meaningful item/items perceieved as a unit. A meaningful item/items understood as not forming part of a larger item. To be or not to be a text;; hamlet. + depends on how you look at it. Everything is a text & we can read it. In language and in other semiotic systems, the meaning & function of each item depends on the context (what"s outside the actual text but is relevant to it. Linguistics often use grammar to mean syntax . + i don"t hear nothing double negative. Sentences with bad grammar are typically grammatical on the linguist"s sense. Judgment of badness or correctness is a social issue. If a normal native speaker says it in a normal circumstances, then it is grammatical. Linguists determine how people speak; they do not prescribe how to talk correctly . Morpheme: smallest unit of language that carries meaning. + anti dis establish ment ari an ism.