LING 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: British Sign Language, French Sign Language, Sign Language
28 Jan 2017
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First hw on monday (paper copies will be available as well as digital on course website) There were originally 13, defined by hockett, but then 3 more were added (will not be a prelim/final question to define some of these 13) Duality of patterning (above are the original 13) The * by first one, is the exception of sign languages. Note that asl is closest to lsf (french sign language) instead of bsl (british sign language), as one may expect. The speaker/listener can switch and the conversation makes sense. This came from the need to differentiate human communication from animal communication. Larger units can be built from smaller ones. Languages are compositional: meaning that the parts are atoms or built of atoms. For example, he kicked the bucket makes sense in english, meaning he died . But he kicked the blue bucket does not make sense. Linear order - word parts have a sequence to them (except tones)
