[LINGUIS 155AC] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (79 pages long)
30 Mar 2017
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Means of modality by which messages are transmitted. Pragmatic: serve for useful purpose (influence others behavior, social bonding) Arbitrary, productivity, displacement , discreteness, pattern, semanticity. Arbitrariness: forms of signal not logically related to meaning. Productivity: produce and understand messages that have never been expressed before. Animals have a fixed number of signals, humans open ended . Discreteness: complex messages built out of smaller parts. Animal communication not have this property (some exceptions). Duality: human language 2 main structural dimensions: small inventory of sounds combine to form meaningful units - combine to form infinite # of utterances. How humans communicate and interact with each other by means of habitually used, arbitrary symbols. Two language varieties said to be dialects of same language of m. i. If speaker a and b understand w/o difficulty, a and b same language. If speaker a and b not understand each other, a and b different languages. B say m is a dialect of b.
