LIN 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hawaiian Pidgin, Creole Language, Zero Copula

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 200
• Professor: Andrei Antonenko

Document Summary

Language: arbitrary conventional system of sounds used for communication within a linguistic community. Arbitrary: no connection between sounds and meaning. Sounds: language is primarily spoken as some do not have a writing system. Linguistics: the scientific study of language as a system. Phonetics: the physical production and perception of sounds [of speech]. Phonology: describes the way sounds function [within a given language]. Change in pitch (loudness), speed, and quality. Morphology: the study of the structure of word forms. Syntax: the study of rules (grammar), or (cid:368)patterned relations(cid:369). Semantics: the study of meaning of words, phrases, sentences, and texts. Pragmatics: the study of how speakers interact in conversation and how speakers structure narratives. No language is primitive all languages are complex. No language can be more advanced than another: difference in sound systems, morphology (meaning), and vocabulary. My car needs washed vs. my car needs to be washed (difference in syntax).