LING 1000 Lecture 1: LING 1000 Lecture 1
6 Oct 2016
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Linguistics is the scientific study of human language: What they must know in order to do so. In spite of its enormous complexity, language is systematic and can therefore be studied scientifically. Consider the following statements about language: better than another group (less educated, a different dialect, another. One group of speakers (cid:523)more educated, one dialect, one gender (cid:524) speaks gender (cid:524). Some languages are more primitive than others. Creation of grammars language revitalization: we live in an area of great linguistic diversity. Over 140 languages are spoken as native languages in toronto1. 1 according to the city of toronto website http://www1. toronto. ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=dbe867b42d853410vgnvcm10000071d60f89. Phonology 1998) have the same sound structure, and yet they show striking similarities (cid:498)there are around 6000 languages in the world today. No two of them in their sound systems. (cid:499) (gussenhoven and jacobs, understanding. Barber, the english language: a historical introduction 1993: 1) of labour which is hardly possible without language.
