LING 020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mutual Intelligibility, Microsoft Onenote, Proto-Indo-European Language
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Wednesday, october 26, 2016 4:56 pm: different grammar may distinguish 2 separate languages. If 2 are mutually intelligible, they may be dialects. If not mutually intelligible, they may be separate languages. What is language: smallest unit of language: sounds (not syllables, sounds > words > sentences > linguistic competence, what is a word, we have a mental lexicon that is separate from a physical dictionary. A sequence of sounds with meaning: refers to set of rules we already know (when a native speaker, ferdinand de saussure the linguistic sign (word) Sound output & meaning: two sides of a coin // arbitrary relationship, arbitrary = unpredictable (ex: different words for book around the world, onomatopoeia. *even with context, still arbitrary without connection: all languages show patterns. Washoe: not very successful experiment, chimps don"t have descended larynx to allow vowel production, taught asl from early on, treated like a baby by a couple.
