LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Noam Chomsky, Speech Community, Unit
4 Dec 2017
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Humans have a cognitive capacity to learn languages: it is a complex system based on rules. Its pervasive, it"s everywhere and we don"t think about it while using it. Form: knowing the words of the language and the rules for putting them together. Function: knowing how to communicate/express yourself in the language. The most likely answer is frink", but a native speaker of dutch would prefer knoep" as the sequence of sounds are according to the rules of the language. As a speaker of english we can discern english sentences vs not: we judge a sentence/word etc . Niuean has rules for making up new words reduplication (repeating words to identify "to keep doing something". The order of subject/object/verb is different from english, and niuean speakers know this. When we talk about language , we are talking about the .
