LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Xenophobia, Natural Language, Man Man
25 Nov 2017
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Linguistics: the scientific study of natural" language broad field. Natural language one where someone would grow up learning it. Linguistics is based on theories or hypothesis always testing theories with data. You must be able to test and falsify. It must be able to be tested with the data one piece of falsifyzation will prove a theory wrong. We have one language to refer to an infinite number of situations. All languages have a grammer or rules extremely general. Phonotactics: possible sounds configurations (eng: prasp - *psapr, flib - *bfli. Definiteness (eng: the man man the, the idea idea the similar in danish, mand-en en-mand. Jabberwocky slihy toves slithy is adjective and toves is noun because that is the general order. All languages have (a) grammer it varies across languages. All languages and all varieties of the same language are equal in: complexity all depends on the grammar fitness apropriatnes.
