LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Inter-Active Terminology For Europe, Onomatopoeia, International Phonetic Alphabet
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We will be looking at subareas in this class. Speaker encode meaning into sounds (or hand shapes) Listeners decode speech sounds of hand shapes into meaning. When we know a language we know a nite set of building blocks and rules that we can use to make words, phrases, and sentences. In this class we will be thinking of language as a system of knowledge. Kinds of building blocks and rules for a language. We know the inventory of sounds in our language. Note: when things/sounds are in brackets we are referring to the international phonetic alphabet (ipa) Symbols can mean di erent things in di erent languages ex: j We know sound patterns in our language; what sequences of sounds can occur next to each other and what can"t. Ex: in english sg is a not possible sound combo but in italian is ok.
