LING-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neurolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics
11 Sep 2015
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Linguistics recitation (week of 9/7/15) A way to simplify this is: Prescriptive rule: you shouldn"t do this . Descriptive rule: but you can. If you are confused, refer to the textbook"s definition, or ask your ta. Topics, terms, and concepts introduced this week: Before 1950, linguistic study was mainly historical. 3 big discoveries changed the field: v 1. That sound changes in languages are regular. Ex: the latin, spanish, and french words for father is pater, padre, and per . These comparisons indicate that at some point, all the words beginning with. P in latin turned into an f sound in german and english. v 2. Language is systematic; it has rules. Linguistics is not just about what languages can do, but what they can"t. This revelation came out of a revolutionary text about linguistics published by noam chomsky in 1957, called syntactic structures.
