LING 110g Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Digital Infinity, Brown Hair, Network For Earthquake Engineering Simulation
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The syntax allows us to create infinitely many well formed sentences. An infinite number of sentences can be made with a finite number of words. An infinite number of words can be made with a finite number of morphemes. An infinite number of morphemes can be made with a finite number of phonemes. There are different levels at which we observe discrete infinity (=digital infinity), one of the two defining properties of a natural language mentioned. Things we know because we have semantic competence: equivalence. Cannot be interpreted as: every girl cleaned every girl"s room. Every boy said that john was busy. *** there will always be 3 choices for this. At least some students passed the test. The first entails the second but not vice versa. John is blond and mary is a brunette. Mary is a brunette and john is a blond.
