COMD 2050 : COMD 2050 Exam 1
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Innateness hypothesis: predisposed for language (humans are) Interactional- 90% of language use: transactional- to convey info, writing, only 1000 out of 6000 languages in the world have a writing system, pictograms- symbol represents an object or concept. [y] you, beautiful, feud, use, yell: vowels. [ ] but, tough, another, oven: diphthongs, when two sounds go together to make one sound, has to have at least one vowel. [ay] i, bite, aisle, island, choir: place of articulation, julio, 1. lips- used to talk, sounds happen, extremely important place of articulation, lavial or bilavial (consonants, 2. teeth- dential (consonants, 3. [t] [d] [s] [z] [n] [l] [r: alveo- palatals. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [y: velars, glottals. [h] [ : manners of articulation, v is voice (vibrates, s is voiceless (doesn"t vibrate, stop, where the air stops. [p] [b] [t] [d] [k] [g: 3 part articulate, voice or voiceless, evular, stop, fricatives, affricates, nasals.
