PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dog Bite, Oneword, Morpheme
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Properties of language: creative, structural, meaningful, communicative. Have a finite vocab that can be combined in infinite ways. Structure: although creative there are rules, these are regularities of language (not necessarily grammar rules) Ex. can end a sentence with a preposition and be understood, can"t say dinner the . Object (cat or dog), action (bites), abstraction, quality : grammar/structure also contribute to the ideas. Dog bites cat or cat bites dog (think of a picture of a dog biting a cat or vice versa) Communicative: some language is private for ourselves (inside voice, most language is directed at and around others, social activity (writing, decoding, speaking etc. , need to know the sounds, words, sentences of languages & principles of conversation. Conversation: pragmatic (how we speak to others: knowing how to speak to whom, difference between talking to a child, loved one, stranger, employer, enemy, expert etc.
