LING 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Jean Berko Gleason, Chocoholic, Compulsive Buying Disorder
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Objective for linguistics: characterize the subconscious knowledge of language. Expletive infixation: explicative is inserted in the middle of another word. A native can decipher where to use expletive infixation that is intuitively correct. No one taught us about: unconscious knowledge/intuition of rules and structure. Mc gurk effect: intuitively knowing the mouth shape of a specific sound. [y] " is not an english sound. [rt] nothing in english, but can be used in russian. You know the possible orders to combine sounds. Sometimes plural sounds like [z] and sometimes sounds like [s] The way we decide the possible order of sounds is innate and not memorized, we know this intuitively. You also know the limits to how complex words can be formed. Ex. newly created word not in dictionary: two factor authentication security. However, aholic" doesn"t mean anything on its own. You know how to build good sentences.
