CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Recursive Language, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Fire Hydrant
26 Mar 2017
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Language: a form of communication, whether spoken, written, or signed, that is based on a system of symbols and rules for arranging those symbols. Another function of language: to express and manipulate thought. Animals clearly communicate with one another a dog marking a fire hydrant a monkey calling a warning to the troop a bee indicating to the other bees where the good flowers are. These behaviours serve to send signals relating to dominance, courtship, ownership, alarm, etc. Vervet monkeys the sounds animals make have vocalizations that serve an communication. But critics argue that there is no system of rules governing their use of signs language is more than just manipulating symbols. Symbol: a representation that stands for something (ex: /kaet/=cat; /dag/=dog) Lexicon: vocabulary consisting of a finite number of words. Syntactic categories: categories to which the words in the lexicon belong. (e. g. , nouns, determiners, prepositions, conjunctions, verbs, adjectives, adverbs).
