AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Glottochronology, Morpheme
Document Summary
Language and communication: the nature of language, language. Means of transmitting information and sharing experiences: linguistics. The modern scientific study of all aspects of language: the sound and shape of language, phonetics. The study of the production, transmission, and reception of speech sounds. About 6000 languages presently exist: phonology, sounds. Capability to make the sounds in any language. Smallest classes of sound that change meaning. Smallest unit of sounds that carry a meaning: words. Cats and dogs (each with two morphemes; free morphemes) S (bound morpheme, plural : grammar and syntax, frame substitution. Method used to identify syntactic units of language: syntax. Rules of phrase and sentence making: grammar. Morphology and syntax: the gesture call system, body language and extra linguistic noises. Linguistic change: synchronic and historical linguistics: language family. Group of languages ultimately descended from a single ancestral language: linguistic divergence. Development of different languages from a single ancestral language.
