Linguistics 2244A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tacit Knowledge, Generative Grammar, Universal Grammar

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 2244A/B
• Professor: Olga K

Document Summary

Generative theory of linguistics: goal: represent in a formal way the tacit knowledge that native speakers have of their language, languages are universal, generative grammar: theory of linguistics that accounts for phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information. Syntactic knowledge: combine words in a sentence: grammatically vs. ungrammatically. Morphological knowledge: combining morphemes in a word. How they can be combined to be interpreted. Phonological knowledge: how sounds of the language are organized, how they interact in a word, at the word boundary and in a sentence. Performance: competence: idealized unconscious knowledge, performance: actual use of language, the way we learn about competences is by looking at performance, phonological form vs logical form. Phonetics vs. phonolgy: phonetics: study of speech (performance). Study of production, transmission, and perceptional of minimal units of language. What you can visually see in sound waves: phonology: study of sounds of language (competence) how sounds are organized.