LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Phonotactics, Bound And Unbound Morphemes

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Hendrikus Van Der Hulst

Document Summary

Ling 1010 lecture 10 - the mental grammar: structure and. Phonotactics - a system of rules (called constraints) that speci es which combinations of phonemes are well-formed (i. e. grammatical) in a given language. Each linguistics expression has three layers of structure: Language is heavily structured, due to a mechanism termed merge. Combine a with b they form a unit. Merge is the structure-building mechanism of grammar. Put two parts together : humans are the only animal able to carry out merge. These constraints state the possible phonological structures in a given language. Phonemes group in syllables, but the syllable itself has a further internal structure. /bl k/ is a possible and actual word. The bn k-test demonstrates that native speakers have grammatical intuitions, inn this case with respect to phonotactic wellformedness. Children are somehow able to intuitively discover the phonnotactic. Words are combinations of constraints that apply to their language. syllables, which creates further hierarchical structure.