LIN102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Affix, Nonconcatenative Morphology, Bound And Unbound Morphemes
6 Mar 2018
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No right or wrong, all language has its own interpretation. A: language is the system of sounds, words and sentence patterns used by humans to communicate thoughts and feelings. Two aspects: form (what is it made up of?) and function. Yes: writing is not the language speaking is. Competence vs performance: q: approximately how many. Linguistic competence the knowledge the user has known a certain amount of words and create an infinite number of sentences. Subconscious knowledge, (grammatical), acquired without explicit teaching. Performance is behavior; use it in everyday speech. Various needs of different groups change the need for languages. Not talking about the words, but the depth of language. Two ways: either take the wh word and put it at the beginning of the sentence or just leave it where it should be. Chomsky-ion view: possibilities are limited because of biological language. Corresponding to chap 4 of the text. Practice questions for the next tutorial chapter 4 exercises 1-3.
