Linguistics 2244A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pragmatics, Mark Liberman, Jean Berko Gleason

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 2244A/B
• Professor: J. Garavito

Document Summary

Understand the systematicity of first language acquisition. Look at some methodology for studying child language. Linguistic phone or segment: a sound that may be found in the world"s language: e. g. Phoneme: a segment that serves to distinguish words in a specific language: e. g. English /p/, /b/, /z/, /s/ but not [ ] Morpheme: a minimal unit of meaning: e. g. in-consider-ate. Units of syntax: phrases and sentences: e. g. the big house; i ate cereal for breakfast. Longitudinal study: a study that follows a participant over a period of time (usually very few participants) Cross-sectional study: a study that looks at many participants at a particular point in time. Linguistic chunk: two or more words that are not analyzed into their component parts: e. g. Very young infants can distinguish linguistic sounds that do not occur in the language(s) of the home (3 days to several months old: true.