LING 2450 Lecture Notes - Gender Role, Social Inequality, Walkerton, Ontario

• School: York University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 2450
• Professor: Philipp Angermeyer

Document Summary

Even with different languages, language is universal all human beings are capable of using/learning language. Linguistics is divided into subfields that focus on different parts of language structure: phonetics : what are human speech sounds. How articulation works, acoustics medical side: phonology: what are the sound systems of languages. Different languages make different uses of potential ranges of speech sounds. What are the commonalities and the principles that govern them: morphology: what are meaningful units of speech and how are they combined into words. Example: mean-ing-ful (three different units that can occur by themselves or in other situations: syntax: how words are combined into sentences. Look at what words altogether are doing: semantics: how meaning is created in grammar, discourse: how communication works; how conversations or written texts are structured. How does language structure relate to legal questions? (1) Phonetics/phonology: crucial for voice recognition (speaker identification), also language identification (e. g. identifying where a person is from)