Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Broccoli, Object Permanence, Misgivings
9 Dec 2017
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Generatively > ability to use a nite number of words and rules to produce in nite number of sentences. Displacement > convey information about other times and places: past present and future tense. Organization > language is structured: broken down into many ways, example: the strangers left > Phrase: the strangers: word: the and stranger. Morpheme: strange - er - s ("s" makes the word plural) Morpheme > pull the meaning out of a word: what has happened to the root word to change the tense of it. Phonemes > pronunciation of the morphemes: only 45 in english language, 13 in hawaiian. Arranging the elements in a meaningful way. Ex: colourless green ideas sleep furiously: syntax is perfect but it makes no sense. Ex: make me a coffee: two meanings. Ex: the french bottle smells: (the french)(bottle)(smells) > makes perfume, (the french bottle)(smells) > the bottle from.
