LING 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Long-Term Memory, Vocal Tract, Vocal Folds

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Akihiko Arano( T A)

Document Summary

When people say that the mind has structure what they mean is that each cognitive ability works in a very specific way. Our minds are very impressive, but they only work a certain way: what is a difference between "language," on the one hand, and "a language" and. Language refers to the ability to acquire and use systems of communication. A language is any specific collection of outputs of our ability (ex. Language is the target study in linguistics: linguists build theories of language mainly based on native speakers" intuition/judgement. That is, linguists construct linguistic examples/sentences and make native speakers judge these examples. To see if examples are allowed or not, linguists mainly rely on native speakers" judgment. As a native speaker of english, you should have the ability to judge english sentences. The study of the patterns of sequences of sounds in language: consider a word tree.