LING 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hypotenuse, Fricative Consonant, Tuning Fork
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People started speaking latin slightly different, and more and more different, until eventually they were speaking totally different languages, and we got modern french, spanish, and italian (and others). parent language is usually called the "proto-language" so. Proto-indo-european (pie) - the parent language that all the indo- Symbols/words have meanings. meaning of a symbol/word is a concept. Conceptual space is just all the concepts we can think of. You can talk about any concept using language. But because there are infinite concepts but only a limited number of words, sometimes we have to use more than one word to describe a concept. We don"t always have a direct word for a concept. Some languages have direct words for concepts that english doesn"t, and vice versa (so there are cultural differences in vocabulary) Conceptual space: concepts human have can be described using language. Stops: close mouth when pronounce sounds- p, t, k,bdg.
