LING 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lexical Semantics, Phoneme, Valley Girl
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Language as an artifact of culture, computational system and links between the two. Symbol: some physical object that represents a concept other than itself. Can use language to talk about fictional, non existent & alternative things, past/present/future. Form of symbol is independent of what it represents. Duck (word- 4 symbols i(cid:374) a (cid:396)o(cid:449)(cid:895) (cid:448)s du(cid:272)k (cid:894)pi(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e(cid:895); (cid:374)ot like (cid:858)d(cid:859) (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)ts du(cid:272)k(cid:859)s (cid:271)eak. Du(cid:272)k (cid:395)ua(cid:272)k is u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sal (cid:271)ut ea(cid:272)h la(cid:374)guage assig(cid:374)s the (cid:858)(cid:395)ua(cid:272)k(cid:859) diff sounds. G(cid:396)ee(cid:374) light is a(cid:396)(cid:271)it(cid:396)a(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:894)g(cid:396)ee(cid:374) does(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)il(cid:455) (cid:373)ea(cid:374) go(cid:895) Conceptual space and form (linguistic expressions- words & phrases) Studying linguistics entails studying the many nuances of this system. 2 layers of symbolic representation (phonemes & words) Phonemes: sounds used to assemble words; letter is a written symbol to represent phoneme. Du(cid:272)k is (cid:373)ade f(cid:396)o(cid:373) 3 pho(cid:374)e(cid:373)es d, u, (cid:272)k. Glyphs: written characters that represent phonemes, syllables or whole words. & a(cid:374)d a (cid:374) d (cid:894)3 pho(cid:374)e(cid:373)es & 3 gl(cid:455)phs(cid:895)
