LING 1101 Lecture 12: Notes
10 Mar 2017
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Lexical categories, word classes: adj (a), noun (n), verb (v), adverb (v), preposition (p), determiner (d), conjugation (conj) Content (open class) words: a, n, v, adv. So these are not acceptable in other languages. Abstraction from experience or hard-wired knowledge of english. Morphology: today human language vs other communication systems. We implicitly know that antifriended is not allowed for. Can infer meaning of word combinations that have not been heard before. Are you one of those that we can not make fan of be ikta ?". Sound to meaning path requires complex processing/decoding of. Unlockable = cannot lock or able to unlock. Police help dog bite victim the police help dog or victim (for now) assume that a word is smallest unit of sound that corresponds to a meaning. Words cannot be broken into smaller pieces than morphemes. Affixes = predictable combination patterns (which morphemes they are added to) Cannot (usually) carry the bulk of the meaning.
