ENGL 290- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
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With humans there is language: literacy skills is not language. All languages are complex: no easy language. All languages have: vowels and consonance, nouns, verbs, adjectives/adverbs, concepts about. Language makes in nite use of nite media (linguist from humbolt) Onomatopoeia: sound symbolism takes care of the arbitrary relationship between sound and meaning. Prescriptive versus descriptive: lowth tried to prescribe language. Who v. whom: many people do not follow prescriptive rules. Wednesday, september 20, 2017: descriptive rules are never broken. Competence is an abstract system: internalized in the mind of speakers, cannot be heard but makes speech possible, native speakers have perfect competence. Performance is language behavior: it is speech, observable, speakers make performance mistakes, native or second language speakers can make performance mistakes. Synchronic studying is studying a language at a certain point of time. Diachronic studying is comparing a language between di erent points of time. Airstream mechanisms: most sounds are pomonic aggressive (pushing air out) sdfsdfsdf.
