[LING 1P92] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 32 pages long Study Guide!
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Plato believed name of object is part of its essential being *didn"t believe words are arbitrary. Structured: lang has pattern based on rules which determine how sounds can be combined into words, words into sentences, sentences into discourse; human lang is structured/rule governed. Multilayered (hierarchal structure in book): all messages divisible into smaller units of analysis (paras into sent, sent into phrase, phrase into words, words into sound) Productive: limited set of sounds can create unlimited set of words, make limitless number of sentences; sometimes sentences have never been said before, can constantly add to language. *muggle was a word added to oxford english dictionary in 2010. Evolutionary: constantly changing and evolving (disuse drops word), add words [ex because of pop culture, technology google it, tweet something, function something happening, need word for it, contact with other language (called loan words)] Multimodal: oral (through speech), manually (asl-has 7 functions of language too),