LING 1001 Lecture 1: LING1001 Lecture 1

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1001
• Professor: Masako Hirotani

Document Summary

What sorts of language rules are there: (cid:862)i (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e e e(cid:454)(cid:272)ept afte(cid:396) (cid:272)(cid:863) What rules about spoken language are there: do(cid:374)"t lea(cid:448)e p(cid:396)epositio(cid:374)s at e(cid:374)d of, subject precedes verb sentence. Descriptive rule: factual patterns of the language. Spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272)ally, (cid:449)e"ll look at rules a(cid:271)out : morphology . So you want to know what you know when you know a language . What you know when you know a language: Our task in this class: analyze data. Some things that we will discover: language is, language is, language is, (cid:271)ut. Language is productive: you can produce and comprehend ____ sentences, you can make sentences _____ longer. Some languages have: p(cid:396)o(cid:374)ou(cid:374)s spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272)all(cid:455) fo(cid:396) , (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:271)al (cid:373)a(cid:396)ki(cid:374)gs fo(cid:396) , (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds (cid:449)ith just , meaningful differences (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) . Some things languages never do: have no vowels at all la(cid:272)k a , ha(cid:448)e a fo(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s (cid:271)(cid:455) .