LING 1010 Lecture 7: Ling 1010 principles and parameters
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Navajo- native american language spoken by navajo tribe. During ww2 japanese easily broke us military codes so in 1942 us used navajo to encode messages which turned the tide of the war in the pacific. Languages are similar enough to directly translate from one to the other. Navajo and english were too dissimilar to decode. Principles: general principles that govern the way languages work. These properties are shared by all human languages. Parameters: a finite set of options or settings that determine how languages can vary. Determines whether heads come first in their phrases(head initial) or last(head final) Phrases in all languages appear to have heads. All languages use the same set of articulatory features to create phonemes. All languages appear to combine words into phrases. Gloss- in linguistics a word by word translation. Heads are initial in their phrases except for subjects. Subjects always appear to the left of the head in an ip.
