LING 1010 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Term Test Notes - Grammar, Noam Chomsky, Memory

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Hendrikus Van Der Hulst

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Ling 1010 video lecture notes - pinker"s linguistics as a. Language is distinctive, essential, mysterious, and central to human. Writing language was invented several times in human history and alphabetic language was invented once. Children aren"t born with the instinct to speak. Dialects are just as sophisticated as standard languages. Babies and other animals communicate without speech. Types of thinking go on without language. We use tacit knowledge to understand language life. Language is not a peculiarity of one culture, but it"s found in all cultures/societies studied by anthropologists. Duck [duhk]: doesn"t look, sound or taste like a duck but it makes you think of it through the brute force attraction between the word and the meaning that you"ve learned all your life. Typical high school graduate vocabulary: 60,000 words. Chomsky"s contributions to the science of language: creativity ( productivity ) Linguistics is a branch of psychology, a window to the mind. Languages have a syntax unrelated to meaning.