Basics to language

Question 1

What is language?

Answer 1

symbolic communication- social, intellectual, doesnt have to e spoken , rule govern, conventional, arbitrary.

Question 2

What is phonology?

Answer 2

perception and production of sounds used in language

speech sounds that compose langauage

Question 3

what is a phoneme?

Answer 3

smallest unit of sound e.g. b/p/a

happens in a continuous stream

Question 4

What is orthography?

Answer 4

letters

Question 5

What is graphemes

Answer 5

smallest unit of text

letters corrospend to phonemes- not 1-1 though, e..g s can be s, c, ss, sc, x, st, ps

Question 6

What are semantics?

Answer 6

meaning of language

Question 7

Morphemes?

Answer 7

smallest meaningful unit

Question 8

semantics- words?

Answer 8

have multiple meanings e.g roll can mean read roll or to roll down a hill.

Question 9

Pragmatics?

Answer 9

knowledge about how language is used in different contexts

non linguistic- considers communicative function - can be social or intellectual -
we may adjust our language due to context
or socially e.g. turn taking
or perspective taking (take account of others perspectives such as the listeners knowledge)
or intonation (variation in pitch) and prosody (tone and rythm of speech)

Question 10

what is syntax?

Answer 10

form in which words are combined to make grammatical sentences