LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Mustard Plaster, Railways Act 1921, Drunken Sailor
4 Apr 2016
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Thus, some examples of verbal arts are more natural than others. Natural form can be acquired and used like grammar: speakers don"t know the full details of the system they have internalized. Unnatural form can only be taught and learned explicitly. Musical parallel: see lerdahl 1992: example of ariicial form: snowball. The meaning of the poem expresses its own structure. Suppose that this is how we write poetry. Knowing the number of leters in each word. Understanding the meaning and souds is irrelevant, you must write it out to carry it out properly. Therefore this is ariicial because ehtere is no way you can know this like you know language. It is not like language syntax: drunken sailor. You can sing responses that you make up, and it sill its with the song because you can recognize the rules. You must repeat the irst line 3 imes and early in the morning" at the end of the third.
