PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dog Bite, Morpheme, Oneword
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Effortlessly create new sentence: have a finite vocabulary that can be combined in infinite. These are regularities of languages (not necessarily grammar rules) E. g. can end a sense with a preposition and be understand, can"t say (cid:498)dinner the(cid:499) Each word represent an idea: object (cat or dog), action (bites), abstraction, quality , grammar/structure also contribute to the ideas. Most language is directed at and around others, social activity. Need to know the sounds, words, and sentences of language and principles of conversation. Child, loved one, stranger, employer, enemy, expert etc. Phonemes: smallest units of sound recognized as separate unit a given language, do not correspond to letters of alphabet, meaningful perceptual units. About 44 phonemes in english: other languages may have different number. Fundamental unit of meaning: combination of phonemes, english: 44 phonemes: more than 80,000 morphemes for the average person. Morphemes form words: some are single syllable words (hat, bat, some are single letters (s, ed)
