LING101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Minimal Pair, Intensify, Ketchup
14 Jul 2016
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Phonetics: speech sounds, articulation ~ how they are pronounced, acoustics ~ how they behave as physical objects, perception ~ how they are perceived, typically phonetic analysis happens at the level of the segment, ex. Ss , ah : segments can be described in terms of features~ aspects of sound that can be generalised across segments; ss and zz for example, [features, segments] Morphology: the patterns of morphemes into word (word formation, morpheme ~ meaning bearing unit smaller than a word, ex. S at the end of cats : level of analysis: [morpheme, word, phrase] Syntax: the patterning of words into phrases (sentence formation, [phrase, clause, sentence] Aunt is a parents sister: note: family terms are language specific, may be different words for mother vs fathers sister; these words dont refer to natural classes, ex . Quantity ~ say only as much and as little as required: 4. Semantics: studies correspondences between form and meaning (interpretation of words and sentences.
