LING 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pragmatics, Lexical Semantics
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And structure representation of language computational representation of language. The formform and of language structure of language. Symbols and meaning of culture artifact of culture. Language is the earliest, simplest technology symbolic system of representing. Language allows us to share/request info from conceptual space using symbols symbols. Language allows us to share/request info from conceptual space using. Symbol: some physical object that represents a concept other than itself. Symbol: some physical object that represents a concept other than itself system of representing information information. Letters and words are symbols that mean more than the sounds that are spoken. The form of a symbol is independent of what it represents. The word duck is a symbol that does not tell you anything about its meaning or the. The word duck is a symbol that does not tell you anything about its meaning or the information; it"s arbitrary information; it"s arbitrary.
