LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Proto-Indo-European Language, Canadian English, Linguistic Competence
29 Jun 2017
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Sociolinguist sali tagliamonte has studied how the use of the word like has changed across the generations in. Video 1c: human lanuage is creative bc every language can express any possible concept, some lanuguages have interested words ex. Gigil in tagalog means to want to squeeze something bc its so cute. Now even tho theres no english word that matches that meaning, we can still convey that same idea, by using the. Important: mental grammar is governed by systematic principles; principles is what forms the mental grammar (how to combine words and sounds) Grammar is not conciously accesibile to u: u cant explain some things but yet u can do all these things unconsciously and fluently. Speakers of a language can understand an unlimited number of utterance, even novel and unfamiliar ones. Linguistic competence: at the same youre able to recognice that certain utterance are not acceptable and don"t belong in your language.
