LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Applied Linguistics, Max Weinreich, Neurolinguistics
11 Sep 2015
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Txtbk provides 9 design features characteristics of language (ch. Another approach: consider what it means to know a language. Native speakers: can produce & understand unlimited # of utterances (things that are said) Can also recognize that some utterances = ungrammatical. Example: she house a bought, why is this ungrammatical, much of native speakers" knowledge = subconscious . Hidden knowledge you have about your native language. When you speak, we can observe pronunciation, intonation, word choices, sentence structure, etc. When you listen you understand certain things / hear certain sounds. This is linguistic performance : what you actually say, how you say it, what you understand when someone else speaks. Since we can"t view linguistic competence directly, we have to view linguistic performance & use it to learn about competence. Types of performance we can observe: we will consider 6 main areas of linguistics, speech sounds (phonetics): You use some sounds, but not others.
