LINGUIST 1AA3 Final: Entire couse notes

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Phonology: how the sounds of a language are organized in the mind. Phonetics: the physical properties of speech sounds and how humans produce them. Syntax: the principles for combining words to form sentences. Semantics: how the meanings of words and sentences are organized in the mind. Mental grammar a shared system among speakers of a language, a generative system, lets you generate new forms. Words of the same category behave the same way. A words category depends on its behaviour in context. Generate an infinite amount of words in a language human grammar is generative. Noun / pronoun: have singular and plural form, can appear in a phrase after the", replaceable with it". Verb: can"t be plural, most have past tense form ran, run, running. In addition to their auxiliary functions, have, be and do also have some lexical meaning of their own.