LING101 Lecture 1: all lecture notes
30 Jan 2019
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Who did you say he saw: b. Meaning, pronunciation, word class, etc. : a grammar, which consists of rules for manipulating signs (ex. Word > object) and constraints on their distribution (ex. putting together words of the lexicon: phonology (rules for sound combination), morphology (making words), syntax (making sentences), semantics (meanings) Performance: our performance is not always reflective of our knowledge, ling competence: the lexicon and grammar as it exists in our minds (ex. What we know: what we know, which sounds are/are not in your language, which sound patterns are/aren"t allowed in our language, words (ex. Bird calls (one note: messages about surroundings, ex. Bird songs: territorial purposes, mating purposes, some birds can imitate human speech. Is this language: cannot learn structure, cannot create novel utterances. European robin"s song: complex, despite complexity, only high-low alternation is important. Indicate degree of willingness to defend territory: ex. Phonetics: the study of speech sounds, branches, acoustic (physics of sound ex.
