LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Murmured Voice, Egressive Sound, Coarticulation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 201
• Professor: Brian Mc Gill

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How are languages the same? (three above are above. Communicating information about who did what to whom by modulating the sounds we make when exhale. All language change from generation to generation. Don"t end a sentence with a preposition. Sometimes based on application of the rules of other languages: no rules for what is allowed, people break rules all the time, condemns ( ) forms used by people not historically in power. Descriptive grammar: rules describing what people say, goal is to re ect the internal rules that we all follow when we talk. Grammar: a mental system that allows us to form and interpret both familiar and novel utterances. The system of language that you know intuitively and without being explicitly taught is grammar in the linguistic sense. Linguistics build theories about why the generalizations and what they are. Mcgill id:260764970: parity: all grammars are equal, universality: grammars are alike in basic ways, mutability: grammars change over time.