LING 390 Lecture Notes - Motor Planning, Phonetics
5 Dec 2012
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Intuitions maybe don"t get us as far as we would like to understanding language (we need to study systematically in order to understand properly) Youtube of broca"s aphasiac: doesn"t fit with our model -> they can produce words, but they"re slow in accessing lexicon and not really able to speak grammatically. Our focus is on bullet number four: how is language instantiated in the brain. Break language into phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax. Phonetics: the study of the inventory and the structure of speech sounds (not crying/laughing/sneezing) Describing physiological mechanisms involved in articulating sounds (where are your tongue, lips, teeth when you speak) Phonology: the elements and paterns of how things work in specific languages. Phonemes = contrastive sounds in a language that differentiate words in terms of their meaning. Cat and rat begin with distinct phonemes. Also looks at how particular sounds pattern together (slish and screnk vs *srish and *screpk)
