LING444 Quiz: LING444 notes for quiz 1
30 Jan 2019
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A -symbolic- means of communication by the use of a word system. Language is not only limited to spoken language. Jack built this house that the mouse ate cat lived in: rule governed, arbitrary, language specific rules, universal design, universal design, sound and meaning have no correlation i. ii. Usage of wanna and gonna are descriptive grammar rules. They are not proper english, but we use them when we speak. Four properties of human language: arbitrary, the sound and meaning pairs can be extremely random, we use prescriptive grammar, as well as phonology, rule governed, universal design, generative, you can produce completely new sentences with no maximum. Rules of syntax govern how words combine. Ex- i saw a good movie vs i saw a movie good. You can assign the agent and the action into the different words in a sentence even if you don"t know what a sentence means. Rule governed, needs to be in specific order.
