PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dog Bite, Morpheme, Oneword
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Efortlessly create new sentences: have a inite vocabulary that can be combined in ininite was. 600,000 words in our english language: examples: These are regulariies of language (not necessarily grammar rules: e. g. , can end a sentence with a preposiion and be understood, can"t say dinner the . Each word represents an idea: object (cat or dog), acion (bites), abstracion, quality Grammar/structure also contribute to the ideas: dog bites cat or cat bites dog. Most language is directed at and around others, social acivity. Need to know the sounds, words, sentences of language and principles of conversaion. Child, loved one, stranger, employer, enemy, expert etc. Phonemes: smallest units of sound recognized as. Separate in a given language: do not correspond to leters of alphabet, meaningful perceptual units. Humans can produce 100s of phonemes: no language uses all, about 44 phonemes in english. Fundamental unit of meaning: combinaion of phonemes, english: 44 phonemes; more than 80,000 for the average person.
