LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Loanword, Muggle, Sentence Clause Structure
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Lecture 1: an introduction to language, animal communication & psycholinguistic research. Whereas all organisms pass on information to other members of their species, only humans use language. Displacement; exchange can be distant in time & space: talk about past, present & future. No resemblance b/n word (the symbol) & its referent (thing is stands for. Plato believed the name of an object (cid:449)as part of the o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts esse(cid:374)tial (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g; he did(cid:374)(cid:859)t thi(cid:374)k (cid:449)ords (cid:449)ere ar(cid:271)itrar(cid:455). Words are linked based on social convention people all agree the word dog (the symbol) resembles the animal dog (referent) Rules determine how sounds are combined into words, words into sentences & sentences into discourse. Right & wrong way to construct sentences, order is important, ca(cid:374)(cid:859)t create words starting w/ dn. Speech sounds -> words ->phrases -> sentences -> paragraphs t -> bat -> tab put the bat in the tub but could not make it float.
