LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Universal Grammar, Language Change, Habituation
13 Oct 2018
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Ling 1010 lecture 14 - language and mind: the argument from. Linguistic universals + the argument from language acquisition. Last time, we discussed the argument from linguistic universals. Universals: deeper study of a language, smaller sample (deep analysis of languages are more time- consuming, focus: hidden properties (mental grammar, phonemes, syllable structure, etc. , parallel with physics: E = mc2: based on surveys with large numbers of languages, typological studies , can be corpus or data-driven, parallel with physics: observable properties of static matter and action or change under varying circumstances such as temperature, pressure, etc. Universals can be language- speci c or more general. Universals can be unconditional, implicational or disjunctive. Lecture 14 notes covers the remainder of that concept and introduces the next concept: the argument from language. If a language has contains nasal vowels, it must also contain oral vowels. If a language has a dual ending (boy a two boys ), it must also have the plural.
