BIOL 110 Lecture : Bionotes
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Rules that govern meaning: meaning, knowledge, form: syntax, morphology, phonology, connect sounds and symbols with meaning, syntactic rules: Govern which sounds may appear together and where: use: pragmatics, social use, rules of usage, fluency, hearing. Phonology: the study of speech sounds and sound patterns, phoneme: a speech sounds ( /b/ , /p/) Syntax: the arrangement of words to form meaningful sentences (grammar, a collection of rules for combining words into phrases and sentences (words order) Noam chomsky: (1957, 1965): proposed a new theory of language, stated that the syntactic structures are the essence of language. Universal rules of grammar apply to all languages: chomsky, n. (1957). Semantics: the study of the meaning in language, rules that govern meaning, referent theory of meaning: the meaning of a word in the object, person, or event it refers to. Hearing: essential for normally acquired verbal communication; closely related to speech and language, gives us feedback on our speech performance.