LING 1000 Midterm: Fall Midterm
13 Nov 2016
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Phonology: sound system, how sounds interact (i. e. toronto n and t share place of articulation) Descriptive grammar: an explicit statement of what speakers know about their language and the unit, structures, and rules of a mental grammar. Prescriptive grammar: an attempt to legislate what speakers grammatical rules should be. Teaching grammar is a set of language rules to assist in the learning of a ______________ or a ____________. The arbitrary relationship between form of a word and meaning of a word is: supported by the fact that the word pronounced as chip in english means house in korean, and year in. Cave drawings called petroglyphs, drawn by humans living more then 20,000 years ago. Pictograms: direct image of the object it represents, literal (i. e. fuel, food, hotel) Logographic/word writing: symbol stands for both the word and the concept (cuneiform developed into symbols which represented words in a language) Logograms: symbols of a word-writing or logographic system.
