LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Bilabial Trill, Lexical Semantics, Universal Grammar
15 Mar 2016
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Video: the comma queen: the singular their" : we subsitute their" because we don"t have a word for his/her, the best ix is to reword the sentence, she acknowledged that it is okay to use in speech. They" has come to be a singular term to refer to gender neutrality. Examples of diversity: rare sounds: bilabial trill; simultaneous [r] and [z]; simultaneous [t] and [p, inventory size: 11 (rotokas) vs. 80 (ubykh, polysyntheic vs. analyical morphology. Some languages have lots of verbs, some have very few. Some languages may only have 1 noun: lexical semanics. English makes disincions that other languages don"t make. Language universals: design features (arbitrariness, duality of paterning, imaginable languages that violate design features. A language corresponding to the two-word stage in child language. Mlu mean length uterance: used to measures the complexity of children"s speech. A musical language that uses melody and tonality for grammaical purposes.
