LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lewis Carroll, Sentence Clause Structure, Ditransitive Verb
1 Jun 2016
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Empirical based (same thing as evidence based, but the evidence has to be facts, inferable, observable data) General enough to explain how language works & why. Precise enough to make predictions about language development. One language to refer to an infinite number of situations. With one language, we can generate an infinite number of utterances/meanings with a finite number of items (words) Use precise rules that are shared by all speakers of the same language (grammar) Do something related to meaning of noun: conversions (verbs from nouns) (english) General interpretive meaning that allows understanding assign an interpretation to the utterance. People try to be as relevant as they can. What consonants to combine, what sounds go together, how letter combinations are pronounced (e. g. psy sigh : prasp, flib, psapr, bfli* Definiteness (english): how to combine words to make coherent sentences/phrases. Morpheme: smallest meaningful unit of language: the man, the idea, man the, idea the*
