LING 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pronoun, Animal Communication
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Language is a system of rules that can be used to communicate thoughts, ideas, information, and meaning. What is linguistics: linguistics - the study of language and language phenomena from a formal perspective, linguists try to understand how language works, the formal properties of language, as a physicist studies the formal properties of objects. Main questions: what do we know when we know a language, syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics, etc, how do we come to have that knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, how is language used, social factors, psychological factors. 1)tongue twisters: she sell seashells by the seashore, how can a clam cram in a clean team can, pronoun reference, oscar admires himself, oscar thinks that grover admires himself, oscar showed grove pictures of himself. System of knowledge about language in your mind. A linguist"s description of speakers" mental grammar; based on how people actually speak.
