Exam 2 02/06 (01/30 - 02/13) Flashcards
Adam ____ on the first day of his life
spoke
Language ultimately derive from _____
God
“let us make man in our image”
Language enables us to _____
cooperate in fulfilling the creation mandate
Why is a language a gift from God?
- It facilitates communication between God and man
2. it permits “correct” meaning attached to creation
Sins effect on language
There is no primitive language they are all equally complex and there are 3,000 to 8,000 languages in the world.
However languages are dying - latin for ex
Descriptive linguistics
The study of sound
Phonetics
Study of the physical attributes of sound
[p]en vs sheep
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Phonemics
The study of sounds in one language that are distinguished by its speakers
Phoneme
A part of Phonemics. The smallest unit of sound that can be altered to change the meaning of a word.
pin /p/ sin /s/ tin /t/
Morphemes
The smallest combination of sounds that have meaning
Sounds that cannot be broken into smaller units
like (single morpheme)
un or dis (two bound morphemes) - un-like, dis-like
Syntax
A set of rules that determines the meaningful organization of words into phrases and sentences.
These rules align morphemes to develop meaning
You | are | there. Three morphemes organized by syntax to create meaning.
Theory of Language - Thought produces language
Chomsky
Transformational grammar theory - “As we think, so we speak”
Looking for a common denominator between human languages
Deep structure
Chomsky
The underlying grammatical form of the sentence that is transformed by a set of transformational rules into surface structure.
Sapir Whorf
“As we speak so we think”
Members of different cultures with different languages contain unique characteristics
Particular worldview and perspective
Chinese struggle to think
abstractly - in theory
