PS260 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pragmatics, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Coarticulation
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Basic level language involves translating thoughts into series of sounds that can be spoken than the sounds into thoughts: language has a hierarchical organization that allows these translations between thought and sound, sentence a coherent sequence of words that expresses meaning, word the smallest free form in a language, morpheme the smallest unit of sound that can carry meaning in a language, phoneme the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish words in a language. Phrase structure approaches also make a distinction between competence and performance: competence: refer to language knowledge that might be revealed under ideal circumstances, performance: refers to the actual behavior of a speaker/listener, including errors, under normal circumstances, d structure: the underlying and abstract structure of a speaker"s intended meaning in uttering a sentence, linguistic universals: rules of structural properties that apply to every human language subject verb object" preferred order.
