LING 240 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Noam Chomsky, Linguistic Prescription

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 240
• Professor: Margaret Antonisse

Document Summary

Speakers" judgements about grammatical and ungrammatical forms. Reactions- what makes something a sentence: something is a sentence if it makes sense (wrong, who"s there? it"s me is ungrammatical (wrong) Famous example: colorless green ideas sleep furiously (noam chomsky) This is not a complete-not a complete thought. John seems sleeping- conjugation is not correct on sleeping. Skid crash hospital-not grammatical, but you know what it means. Something that a native speaker would naturally say (because it follows from their mental grammar) We"ll have a hypothesis about a language pattern. We should be able to predict that a particular sentence should be either grammatical or ungrammatical. Design features of a language: what does it mean to say the relationship between the form and the meaning is. Answer: the words in other languages would be the same. Messages in the system are made up of smaller, repeatable parts. The sounds of a language are perceived categorically, not continuously.