LIN101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Morphological Typology
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English and german are really similar french speaker: came from the same ancestor, similar traits still remain, phonologically similar in properties. English and chinese are really similar korean speaker: similar syntactic patterns. Today, we"re looking at typological classification; next week, genetic. Properties hypothesized to be common to all human languages: absolute universal (all languages, universal tendencies (most languages) Implicational universal (if a language has x, then it has y) Absolute universals: all languages have, vowels, and consonants, nouns and verbs, sentences with subjects. If a language has only two vowels, the second will be /i/ If it has three vowels, they will usually be /a/, /i/, /u/ If it has four, the fourth will be /e/, /o/, /e/ If it has five, they will be /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ If a language has rounded vowels, some of them will be.
