Psychology 3140F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tacit Knowledge, Noam Chomsky, Generative Grammar
6 Feb 2015
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Includes showing up, but also participating in discussion. Languages vary in many ways sounds of words (phonology) structure of words (morphology) meanings of words (semantics and lexicon) structure of sentences (syntax) Everywhere where there are humans, there is language. English has at least 11 vowels beat, bit, bait, bet, bat, bought, boat, boot, bat, but, (book) English has about 100,000 words (depends on how you count them ) Languages with 3 vowels usually have (cid:4)a(cid:5), (cid:4)ee(cid:5) and (cid:4)oo(cid:5) 5 vowels, usually: (cid:4)a(cid:5)(cid:1)(cid:4)ee(cid:5)(cid:1)(cid:4)oo(cid:5) and (cid:4)ey(cid:5) and (cid:4)oh(cid:5) Obey a hierarchy for colour words black, white, red, green/blue, yellow, brown, purple, pink, orange, and grey. All languages have at least two color terms black and white. Except in extreme cases (free word order in turkish, russian) Explains why language is universal across all humans. She(cid:3)s a student of physics with red hair. *she(cid:3)s a student with red hair of physics. We seem to implicitly know what(cid:3)s (cid:2)right(cid:3) in language.
