ACS 106 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Adjective Phrase, Function Word

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 106
• Professor: Jamin Pelkey

Document Summary

Saussure introduced that language is chess and speech is a game of chess. Language is like: chess - including its history, rules, patterns etc. Speech is like: any particular game of chess being played out. Sebeok helped up to understand the difference between speech and communication. Speech is only one kind of communication: piano. Chomsky introduced the idea of infinite sounds and phrases. A small and limited amount of sound and speech can create an infinite amount of speech/communication. The 88 keys, history, theory etc if the keyboard are language. Any particular song being played on the keyboard is speech. Many also argues that hebrew was the first language because of the bible and tongue movements. Conditioned response - using language to get a response. Altaic dataset: reconstruct the initial (first) then consonant (if any) When a word or phrase becomes more functional (i. e grammatical) and less meaningful (i. e lexical), grammaticalization has occurred.