LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Competence, Mcgurk Effect, Linguistic Performance
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Make observations, form hypotheses, test hypotheses, revise hypotheses, develop theory matching results. We can"t choose not to understand language because understanding it is subconscious. Expletive infixation: an expletive is inserted in the middle of another word. Even though we"ve never been taught expletive infixation, we somehow all agree what sounds right (there is some kind of rule system) Phonetics: you understand the inventory of sounds in your language (how sounds interact) Mcgurk effect: shows that you intuitively know the mouth shape of a particular sound. Phonology: understanding the sound patterns that are possible in your language. Wug test: a researcher gives a boy made up words and asks him what the plural is. Shows us that children know what the plurals of any words: we have some type of rule system. Lexicon: your mental dictionary of the words you know. Allows you to build more complex words: talk / is talking / talked. What actually comes out of your mouth.
