LINA01H3 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Olivia Dunham, Linguistic Description, Linguistic Competence
LINA01H3
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Monday and wednesday office hours 11-1 (HW404A)
BV355 TA- Olivia
Assignment due at the beginning of the tutorial on the day of due dates 5%
Midterm 20%
Final exam 45%
3 quizzes at end of tutorial 3% each
Syllabus quiz posted on thursday 20/20 1% true or false multiple choice matching or short
answer
Tutorial attendance and participation 10%
Practice exercises to be completed before class (completion)
Exam is based on lecture barely from textbook
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FSG - doodle poll most prob tuesday
Lecture
- Intro to general ling - what is language what is ling
- English lang
- Sounds of eng lang
- Words
- Sentences
- What is ling?
- Scientific study of language (systematic way) diff aspects of language
- What is language?
- Method/way of communication
- Not communication
- What are diff aspects of language?
- What does it mean to know a language? (Subconscious knowledge that exist in the
language speakers head)
- Able to communicate with ppl that also speak that language
- read , write and speak
- Grammar of the langage/ the syntax of the language
- (4th slide) being able to determine/judge the grammatical correctness of the
sentence ( syntax chap 5)
- Identifying words of that language
- Ability to understand idiomatic sentences or phrases
- * sometimes there are overlaps and sometimes not
- Knowing the culture of the place u learned that language (depending on
where you learned that language)
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- Knowing the sounds of that particular language (identify and pronounce) (end
of slide 7)
- Being able to understand that language
- How would you relate the subconscious knowledge with fluency?
- Brain is affected fluency is effected
- Knowledge does correlate with fluency
- Competence:( abstract) the(subconscious) knowledge of the language that you
speak
- Performance: competence in use, speaking, writing, reading
-Linguistic competence
- judging grammatical correctness
Testing - possible word in english
-mbood- no- “mb” (cluster) sequence if not possible in english in the beginning
-frall-yes
-coofp- no - “fp” (cluster) sequence if not possible in english in the end
-sproke-yes
-flube- yes
-bsarn-no - “bs” (cluster) sequence if not possible in english in the beginning
Native speakers have trouble explaining why because they are not conscious of rule
- Fluency ?
- Language acquisition is used for first language (in perspective of prof)
- First language can facilitate learning of the next language
- Learning the first language is a subconscious process
- You don’t need instruction or directions for the first language
- You have a purpose to learn the second language
- How human language is different from other forms of communication (first
language) ?
- 1. Arbitrariness - no relationship between sound/form and
meaning/concept, there is a lot of convention ( words are given
because the
- 2.Creativity- we are able to produce and understand sentences that
we haven't been exposed to before (dictionaries that contain words of
language and sentences because we can use words to create
unlimited amount of sentences)
- 3.Displacement - allows you to talk about events that happened in the
past and thing to happen in the future
- Linguistic Knowledge
-prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar
-mental grammar aka competence
- 2 ways
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Document Summary
Monday and wednesday office hours 11-1 (hw404a) safieh. moghaddam@mail. utoronto. ca. Assignment due at the beginning of the tutorial on the day of due dates 5% 3 quizzes at end of tutorial 3% each. Syllabus quiz posted on thursday 20/20 1% true or false multiple choice matching or short answer. Practice exercises to be completed before class (completion) Exam is based on lecture barely from textbook. Intro to general ling - what is language what is ling. Scientific study of language (systematic way) diff aspects of language. What does it mean to know a language? (subconscious knowledge that exist in the language speakers head) read , write and speak. Able to communicate with ppl that also speak that language. Grammar of the langage/ the syntax of the language (4th slide) being able to determine/judge the grammatical correctness of the sentence ( syntax chap 5) Ability to understand idiomatic sentences or phrases. * sometimes there are overlaps and sometimes not.
