LIN200H1 Lecture Notes - Arbitrariness
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Knowing a language being able to produce the possible structures of the language, and producing sounds with a meaning. Important difference between language acquisition and language learning: Acquisition exposed to it, not conscious. Rule system: arbitrariness no direct relationship between the form and the meaning ie. why we call a cup a cup and not a zap. Continuous is when you would listen to german for example and you are unable to pick up on the spaces between words. Grammar is based on the foundation of discreteness. Components of grammar: phonetics is the study of sounds of human speech. Study of the physical production and perception of sounds: phonology organizing sounds. The patterning of sounds to make a word: morphology the study of the form or structure of a word, syntax how sentences are formed in a given language, semantics meaning. Descriptive how grammar is used (even if it might be wrong to classic grammarians).
