LING319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intertextuality, Joint Attention, Electromagnetic Spectrum
31 Jan 2018
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Ling 319 - lecture 1 - jan 11/2019. Every normal functioning human being has language- can be done through speech, sign, or other ways, doesn"t have to only be through speech. Language is made of words, you put words in a sequence, there are rules about sequencing. It is learned - the learning part has to come from the environment that the human being interacts in. It"s simple in that it is based out of about 40 or so basic sounds. There are some sounds that are really hard to make and some that are really easy to make. Regionalism- different terms, different ways of speaking based on where you are from. Accents- big part of language, there is no such thing as accentless language. In english, on one level, these words mean the same thing. But on another level, these words don"t mean the same thing. We have overlap but we don"t have overlap at the same time.
