LING 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nasal Cavity, Haitian Creole, Speech Production
8 Jun 2016
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Things about language that are not systematic and must be memorized. Phonology is discrete meaningless elements combined into manful words. Meaning-sound relationship is arbitrary, there is no way to predict the meaning of a word from the phonemes that make it. Combines words into larger units (phrases and sentences) A set of rules to combine words into phrases and sentences. Copula: the verb to be when used to link the subject and its predicate. Predicate: expresses a property of an entity or a relationship between entities. John put the pen down, john put down the pen. Sounds (phonology) are meaningless and are combined into meaningful words (morphemes) A syntax that puts meaningful words into larger expressions. Relates the meaning of larger expressions to the meaning of their parts. Logical aspects of meaning - sense, reference, implication. Lexical semantics - word meaning, word relation (properties of human language)
