LIN204H1 Lecture : Lecture 1-Summer (Intensive)
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worth 80% of hw1 work: part b: exercises. prescriptive grammar: how people should speak, what"s correct from moral pt of view. descriptive grammar: as grammar exists, how speakers use a language. register: speakers of a language have more formal ways of speaking. overview of core concepts of course: what is language, what is it that speakers know of their language, knowledge of sounds (phonetics and phenology [system of sounds]) speakers know combinations of sounds are possible: str-, spl-, or sk, spanish speaker, words can"t start like that, knowledge of sounds can and can"t combine goes into deciding names for new products, knowledge of word structure (=morphology) when you know a language, you know how words are structured; you know which words are possible: morphemes, you know which words are possible and which are not. we even have rules for made-up words in our first language.
