LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture 1: Chapter 1 VIDEO NOTES
21 Jan 2019
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Means: the way we ask questions to learn about language uses a scientific approach. The scientific way of thinking about language involves making systematic empirical observation. Empirical observation - we observe data to find the evidence for our theories. Linguist have a descriptive approach to language not a prescriptive approach ( it means, we describe what people do with their language, but we don"t prescribe how they should or shouldn"t do it) * linguistics is the science of human language. * human have some important differences to all other species that make our language unique. 1> articulatory system: our lung, larynx and vocal folds the shape of tongue, teeth, lips and nose all enable us to produce speech. No other species can do this in the way we can not even our closet genetic relatives the chimpanzees, bonobos and orang-utans. 2> auditory system: our ear are sensitive to exactly the frequencies that are most common in human speech.
