PSYCH320 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Unimodality
23 Oct 2018
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Language: systematic and conventional use of sounds for purpose of self-communication and e. Creative / infinite: we can combine things an endless number of ways. Generative: we can understand and create sentences we"ve never heard before. Recursive: it follows a specific structure but we could make sentences extremely long and sentence that follows svo order and use it as the subject for a new sentence, making the. We know certain sounds don"t fit together in certain places of a words, we prefer certain (bakilt over tlikab, t and l do not usually go together at the beginning of a sentence but. We know that some words, like dog, can stand alone, but units like ed cannot. We can guess the ending of a sentence based on the context (yesterday he blick__ vs. tod. Lexicon: words and the concepts that they represent. We know that different types of words (nouns, verbs) have different places in sentences.
