PS102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Phonemic Awareness, Metalinguistic Awareness
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A: official languages bill; both french and english to be official languages of canada. A: consists of symbols that convey meaning, plus rules for combining these symbols, that can be used to generate an infinite variety of messages. A: people use spoken sounds and written words to represent objects, actions, events and ideas. Symbols are flexible, ie, variety of somewhat different objects maybe called the same thing eg lamp. A: the symbols used in language are arbitrary, they have shared meanings for people who speak different languages. A: a limited number of symbols can be combined in an infinite variety of ways to generate an endless array of novel messages. A: the infinite number of sentences we can make must be structured in a limited number of ways; rules govern the arrangement of words into phrases and sentences. A: phonemes, it is the smallest unit of speech than can be distinguished perceptually, they are the basic sound units.
