SLHS 22700 Chapter Notes - Chapter Unit 2: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, International Phonetic Alphabet, Articulatory Phonetics
25 Aug 2016
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Lexical semantics: concerned with the meanings of words and the meaning relationships among words: phrasal or sentential semantics: meaning of syntactic units larger than the word, pragmatics: the study of how context affects meaning. Idioms: have a xed meaning that is not compositional phrases whose meanings are not predictable on the basis of the meanings of the individual words encoded in the brain as one word. Thematic roles: relations such as agent and theme, relations between arguments of the verb and the type of situation being described. Theme: the np or the undergoer : agent: doer of the verb, goal: the endpoint of a change in location or possession, source: where the action originates, experiencer: one receiving sensory input. Illocutionary force: underlying purpose of the utterance, how much force does it have. Ipa (international phonetic alphabet): symbols that represent the fundamental sounds of all languages: anatomy of the vocal tract:
