LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: 18 Months, Universal Grammar, Reading Education In The United States
8 Aug 2016
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Phonology: the rules that govern the patterns of sounds that are used in a language which sounds are used, and how they"re combined. Phoneme: the minimum unit of sound that conveys meaning in a particular language: e. g. /p, e. g. pin" consists of three phonemes: /p/+/i/+/n/ Voice-onset time: the delay between the initial sound of a consonant (such as the puffing sound of the phoneme /p/) and the onset of vibration of the vocal cords. Morpheme: the smallest unit of meaning in a language: e. g. teacher" teach" is a morpheme meaning the action of teaching, and -er" is a bound morpheme indicating that indicates one who teaches". Syntax: grammatical rules of a particular language for combining words to form phrases, clauses, and sentences: e. g. boys the two looking heavily the box at", vs. the two boys looked at the heavy box . Only the second sentence follows the rules of english grammar: syntactical cues are signaled by:
