LIN100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.0: Mouth
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Linguistics - study of how language works; how it"s used, acquired, changes over time, represented in the brain, etc. Table 1. 1 - dual functions of speech organs. To move food to teeth and back into throat. Must first understand the resources that a language makes available to. Native speakers - those who have learned a language in a natural setting (e. g. at home instead of in a classroom) A language must be creative; giving us the freedom to produce + understand new words and sentences when there is a need. Uses points in time rather than periods of time. Speakers of a language are able to understand + come up with many diff. Many of which are novel and unfamiliar o. People acknowledge that some utterances do not belong in their language o. One of the most fundamental claims of modern linguistic analysis: o. Has words + sentences; must also have a morphology + syntax.
