LING 200- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 200
• Professor: Mattyas Haggard

Document Summary

Ta office hours: wednesday @ 4:30-5:30 fb- 801. The scientific study of language and its structure; including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics & semantics. The study i(cid:374) li(cid:374)guistics is (cid:374)ot your la(cid:374)guage or a(cid:374)y specific i(cid:374)sta(cid:374)tiatio(cid:374) of (cid:858)la(cid:374)guage(cid:859) rather the general principles which govern all languages. Linguistics falls under the category of cognitive science. Prescriptive grammar- the atte(cid:373)pt to e(cid:374)force rules co(cid:374)cer(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)correct (cid:862)or (cid:862)i(cid:374)correct(cid:863) usage: mc jagger (cid:862)i ca(cid:374)(cid:859)t get (cid:374)o satisfactio(cid:374)(cid:863) double negative, proper (cid:449)ay to state (cid:862)i ca(cid:374) get a(cid:374)y satisfactio(cid:374)(cid:895) Register of speech how you speak is different to the language used everyday: formal register (cid:858)(cid:448)ous(cid:859) i(cid:374)stead of (cid:858)tu(cid:859) Informal register (cid:862)y(cid:859)all i(cid:374)stead (cid:858)you all(cid:859: register thi(cid:374)k of (cid:448)arious dialects (cid:894)you do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:374)ecessarily (cid:449)rite the (cid:449)ay you speak(cid:895) All linguistic systems play a role in the pursuit of our scientific understanding of language. Our goal: to characterize what humans know about language not what society, books or.