Lecture 11.2

Question 1

What is Chomsky’s view on language?

Answer 1

That the human capacity for language is innate compared to the blank slate approach of Behaviourism

Question 2

What is phonology?

Answer 2

Knowing what words are included in a language

What sounds can start a word

Question 3

What is a phenome?

Answer 3

Smallest unit of speech sound that can distinguish one utterance from another

Question 4

How many phenomes does the english language have?

Answer 4

44

Question 5

What is a morpheme?

Answer 5

Smallest unit that denotes meaning in a language
Root
Affixes

Question 6

What is a lexicon?

Answer 6

An entire set of morphemes in a language

Question 7

How many morphemes does the english language have?

Answer 7

80,000

Question 8

What is semantics?

Answer 8

Relating sound to meaning

Question 9

What is syntax?

Answer 9

Rules of sentence formation

Question 10

What is Universal Grammar and who came up with it?

Answer 10

A system of principles which defines the set of possible grammers
That there are shared properties between different languages
Chonsky