[LING 1] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (64 pages long)
Document Summary
Website for up to date scheduling (times and places): registrar. Purpose: study implicit knowledge of a native language (most complex ability) Language: complex, rule governed system represented in the mind (brain) of its native speakers. All languages are very similar, even the most stigmatized languages and varieties of languages are complex, rule-governed systems. If history is any guide, most of what we believe is to be true today about the structure of the world, including us, hence of language, is actually false, although perhaps not too far from the actual truth. Methods to get these results: try to formulate precise hypotheses list predictions they make test these predictions. Required text: steven pinker, the language instinct, paperback, perennial classics edition. Lecture notes will be posted towards end of each week on ling 1"s website (based on what is covered in class) Some material discussed in class will not appear in lecture notes.
