LIN232H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nonconcatenative Morphology, Noam Chomsky, Universal Grammar
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Linguists tend to work on spoken language because everyone learns a language, but some people are illiterate. The knowledge known as grammatical competence is largely subconscious, acquired without explicit teaching. -> of the many conceivable possibilities, only a narrow band can be found; language universals. Morphology is the study of the structure of words and how they are formed. -> you could be talking about the component of your knowledge or you could be talking about an area (such as morphology being an area of linguistics) -> you have to know its meaning, have knowledge about its syntax (where it shows/form it may takes), and you know the sound. The knowledge of various words that you have is stored in the brain"s dictionary, aka the lexicon. -> noun (person, place or thing), verb, etc. -> ex: love is both a noun and a verb (where it shows up tells us whether it"s a verb or a noun)