LING 1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Grammar, Verb, Shape
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Lecture notes & homework: ln posted on ccle website end of the week. Diff from lecture slides and is not comprehensive: hw handed out in sections, to be turned in the following week, email as last resort and smth v short if not use office hours. Syllabus, office hours, lecture notes, updates & instructions: ccle. ucla. edu. Purpose of class: study the implicit knowledge of a native language. Implicit knowledge: things that you know but you don"t know that you know them. If history is any guide, most of what we believe to be true today is actlly false though perhaps not too far from the actual truth. Try to formulate precise hypotheses, list predictions made, test these predictions. Question your teaspoons": it is to pay special attention and question ordinary things to provide a new perspective. 2 major ways to think about language: a system that allows us to communicate or express our thoughts.
