LING 1100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Part Of Speech, Abbreviation, Gender In English
10 Mar 2016
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Elements of language that you must memorize, they are not systemaic: phonology. Combines sounds into larger units like words: syntax. Combines words into larger units like phrases and sentences. Words were strung together without proper structure: semanics. Relates the meaning of larger expressions to the meaning of their parts: design features of human language, discreteness. Discrete means it is a inite number. Human language is a discrete combinatorial system. A small number of units (phonemes) from old messages can be combined to form new messages. Loudness communicaing anger is not considered discrete: producivity aka creaivity. Exising paterns can be extended to create new expressions. Every human language possesses these two structures: arbitrariness of the sign. An excepion to arbitrariness of the sign" sound symbolism. B sounds rounded: displacement ability to communicate about things not immediately present, relexiveness ability to use language to talk about language. Sign languages: possess their own disinct grammar.
