LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Double Negative

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

I cant get no satisfaction, really means , i can get some satisfaction because a double negative means a positive- prescriptive lingusitics make scientific observations about language if a language has no written form it has no grammar- true. Generality- all languages have grammar ( mental grammar) All languages change over time, especially english all languages have properties in common - true. Whats the ipa good for (international phonetic alphabet) Particular symbol always gives a particular sound, one of one, How many segments in the word thing - 3 segments. How many segments in the word cough- 3 segments. Do cats and dogs end with the same letter- yes (s) Do cats and dogs end with the same segments- no - s sound for cats and z for dogs some obvious ipa symbols. G- give, dagger, bag ( use correct phonetic symbol) s- silly mason kiss. All in the textbook for proper drawings of them.