Ch 1 - Intro Flashcards
Duality
Two levels of language - meaningful and meaningless (syllables)
Productivity
ability to generate and understand an infinite number o sentences by combining and recombining the same few elements and structures
Linguistics
The scientific study of language
What are the three basic modes of linguistic communication?
Oral Communication, Writing, Signing
Dialect
Variations in a language
What are the three faces of a language system?
Expression, Meaning and Context
ASL
American Sign Language - Sign language used in America
Pragmatics
the subfield of linguisitcs that studies language use, in particular the relationship among syntac, semantics, and interpretation in light of the context of the situation
Corpus
Collection of texts
Discreteness
It is a structural feature of language that words are made up of discrete separate elemental sounds
Communicative competence
implicit knowledge that underlies the appropriate use of grammatical competence in communicative situations. Ability to communicate
Displacement
Discuss more than here and now, capable of representing things and events that are not present but are spatially or temporally distant
Five hallmarks of human language?
Arbitrariness, discreteness, duality, displacement, and recursion/productivity
Sign
An indicator of something else, for example of an object or an event
Grammatical Competence
the language users unconscious or implicit knowledge of vocabulary, pronunciation, sentence structure and meaning
