PSYCH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grammatical Category, Preposition And Postposition, Double Negative
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Idiosyncratic stuff (past tense of find = found) Split infinitives (say, to eat quickly , not to quickly eat ) Use a double negative (say, i cannot get satisfaction not i can"t get not satisfaction ) Start a sentence with and or but and so on. Notice: no one has to teach kids not to say who did you see mary and? . Because to boldly go where no man has gone before is part of our mental grammar, whereas who did you see mary and is not. Prescriptive rules: culturally invented rules for how we ought to talk (if we want to appear educated and proper) Rules which describe how people actually talk. This is the focus of language science. Rules describing how speech sounds are combined and how different combinations lead to systematic variation in articulation. The /t/ in table (aspirated) vs stable (not) Aspirated = pause + air release prior to next sound.
