LING 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tnf Receptor Associated Factor, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Description
4 Sep 2015
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A way of connecting sign and meaning through physical connections. Looking at how the sign and meaning connect. Associating signs to related terms: symbol. A type of sign connecting symbol and meaning. Many people claim that there is variation in animal sounds across the world. Example, a cow"s moo vs a cow"s mu; a dog"s ruff vs a dog"s woof. Grammar helps us connect things to meaning, (sound, symbols, etc) It"s a humans job to create a language by producing and comprehending the ________ that have not been produced before. Finite sound syllable words sentences. Varies in types; can consist of a simple cv (consonant-vowel) combination, or can be complicated, like cccvccc (multiple consonants surrounding a single vowel) This flexibility between nouns and verbs aren"t available to all nouns, for example. The above statement is usually considered incorrect, because wristed has not been identified as an actual verb.
