01:615:371 Lecture Notes - Blim, Fast Mapping, Skateboarding
24 Nov 2013
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Linguists are interested in the structure of language. The only way to study competence is by looking at the performance. There is no way to measure internally of a person. What does it mean to know a language? (to be fluent) Can correctly understand everything that one hears that is part of that language. Say the things that are part of the language (grammatical sentences). Having unconscious knowledge about what is and what isn"t part of the language (metalinguistic knowledge). Knowledge of phonemes, which are consonants and vowels. Different combinations allowed. ie: ng combination occurs at the end of english words but not at the beginning. Accents are detectable to native speakers of a language. What are the "melodies" (prosody)? ie: saying is she pretty? with different sounds and intonations to represent different meanings. (use to detect sarcasm) record and record are two different words because the stress pattern on the syllables are different.
