LIN 2300 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Vocal Tract, Homo Erectus, Computational Linguistics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 2300
• Professor: Gustavo Freire

Document Summary

Some aspects of language are innate (true) Not all sounds you are able to make with your mouth are speech sounds, even in other languages (true) Your ability to distinguish sounds is affected by your native language (true/false) Many animals have languages that are much like human languages (false) There primitive languages that cannot express complex ideas effectively (except for pidgins, false) Ferdinand de saussure (1916) langue & parole. Problem of how to assess competence without assessing performance (chomsky) Language is a mental construct, an ability that emerges. It sues speech or signs to become real , or to materialize itself. Rules for the combination of signs to produce complete thought are different from one language to the other, and no set of rules can claim to be the. Right one: neither of these has better claim to accuracy, correctness or truth than the other (no language is better than any other)