LING 15 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Phoneme, Semantics, Noun
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Conceptual space & form (linguistic expressions : words and phrases) Linked by meaning: the interface between symbols and information. Conceptual space is divided up into categories of meaning in which symbols are able to represent. The form of a symbol is independent of what it represents. Nothing about the form of the word that directly represents the context that we associate with the term = relationship is arbitrary. Language allows us to share/request info from conceptual space using symbols. Symbol: some physical object that represents a concept other than itself. Written and spoken words are both symbols. # of symbols is finite and countable. Sounds are the building blocks of words. Words: linguistic forms that have contentful/semantic meaning. Free standing: can be rearranged in a sentence because they have meaning associated with them. D cannot be said on its own because it needs a vowel in order to make a sound.
