LING101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dissimilation, Coarticulation, Vellum
4 Apr 2017
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Phonetics: the articulation and perception of speech sounds. A polysemic word has two or more related meaning. ex: bright > shining >intelligent: homophony: exists where a single phonetic form 2 or more entirely distinct meaning ex: light > not heavy ->illumination ex: ash > product of fire > a tree. One sentence entails the other ex: john lennon was killed in 1980 > john lennon is dead: contradiction: when the truth of one sentence guarantees that another sentence is false, there is a contraction relation. Both sentence can"t be true under the same conditions. ex: elvis preslet died in 1977, elvis lives. Use to analyze the meaning of certain types of nouns in terms of somatic features. Advantage of this is to allow us to group entities into natural classes. (entities that shared semantic features) Underlying the use of words and sentences to express meaning in human language is a conceptual.
