LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Affix, Part Of Speech
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Slide 8: what do speakers know about the words of their language. Slide 11: if you know a word, you know its form and its meaning. The relationship between form and meaning is arbitrary. Slide 13: walked is used as a verb. Slide 17: which pieces can go together and which can"t. Slide 18: and we know the part of speech of words that are not necessarily in the lexicon. Legalizability: you can geuest meaning of new word that you never hear before, you can. Slide 19: this knowledge is stored in our mental lexigon (mental dictionary) We know which words are possible and which are impossible, even though none of these are stored in the lexicon. Then, how is this knowledge represented if these words are not stored in the lexicon. Slide 22: a word is not the smallest unit of meaning in language.
