Phonetics & Phonology Flashcards
Aspiration
audible outrush of air
Glottal stop
stoppage of air in the throat
Articulatory phonetics
how sounds are made
Auditory phonetics
how sounds are perceived
Acoustic phonetics
physics involved in sound production
Physical aspects of language (2)
. sounds we use
. manual and facial gestures
What does grammar mean in generative linguistics?
‘the complete description of a language’
‘generative’
specifying as allowable or not within the language
What does generative grammar consist of?
a set of formal statements which delimit all and only all the possible structures that are part of the language in question
Native speaker competence
the idealised unconscious knowledge a speaker has of the organisation of their language
Syntactic knowledge
permissible word combinations
the relationships that hold between words in sentences
Morphology
formation of words
Semantics
the meaning of words, how meanings are related and how they can be combined to allow sentences to be interpreted
Phonology
sounds of our language and how they are organised
Which areas of native speaker knowledge must full generative grammar represent?
syntactic, morphological, semantic, phonological
