ANT253H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Markedness, Minimal Pair, Phoneme
17 Aug 2017
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Minimal pair- if one sound in the word is changed, then it"s a phoneme. The study of how you form larger units (sentences, phrases etc) A sentence has one or more of these units: Predicate- is made up of a verb and noun phrase (object) Markedness- a word is marked when it occurs in restrictive ways. When we talk about day/night, night is the marked form (default). Markedness is just not about the structure about language, but it also has social implications- for example when you grow up, the default part is that you are assuming you would be getting wise. For a very long time, semantic was not considered a part of linguistic. Referent- a sound usually refers to something else and that something else is called a referent. There are two types of referent: concrete- such as a cat as it is physically present, abstract- this would be in our mind.
