LIN 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Prescription, Pragmatics, Arbitrariness

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 3010
• Professor: Wulff Steffi

Document Summary

Infinite possibilities: recursion, word creation: making new words from old words or combine sounds into entirely new words. Science of language study: linguistics: phonetics: production/perception of sounds in speech, phonology: functions of sounds in language, morphology: structure and meaning of word forms, pragmatics: language (in) use, semantics: word and sentence meaning, syntax: sentence structure. The science of language study: form, function, usage. Performance: competence: mental grammar rules, performance: reflects how you use that knowledge, ferdinand de saussure contributed to language by linking sound and meaning. Hockett"s desig(cid:374) features of natural hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) la(cid:374)guage: design features common to all communication systems, mode of communication, nhl is a sound system based on the auditory vocal channel/the vocal tract. Interchangeability: speakers of a language can reproduce any linguistic message they can understand. In several animal species, males and females display different behavior: elephants can communicate with each other, cultural transmission, nhl is at least partly learned through interaction with other users.