LIN200H1 Lecture Notes - Historical Linguistics, Grammaticality, Language Acquisition
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Example: signified: creative signifier cow (en) korova (rus) vache (fr) ushi (jap) vaca (spa) krowa (pol) behia (basque) mu niu (ch, mandarine) Let"s create couple of new words: (1) a. b. c. d. Lecture 1 summer 2012: acquired (not learned; will talk about this difference in later classes) Phonetics: english speakers know that b is a sound in their language, but not (a palatal click). Phonology: english str-, spl-, or sk-, *rts-, *lps- or *ks-, spanish *st- or *sp-; e. g. estrella star", estado state", especial, special". Morphology e. g. un-system-atic but not *atic-system-un e. g. un-speak-ab-ly but not *speak-ly. Rules for made-up words: e. g. one wag, but two wags. Rules for made-up words: e. g. one wag, but two wags e. g. tomorrow he"ll flubble and yesterday he flubbl-ed. Rules for made-up words: e. g. one wag, but two wags e. g. tomorrow he"ll flubble and yesterday he flubbl-ed. e. g. google-able, podcast-ing, etc. Im/possible combinations of words: google is difficult not to love.
