The Linguistic Components Of Contrastive Analysis Flashcards
What is the distinction between microlinguists and macrolinguists
Micro focuses on the description of the linguistics code, while macro emphasizes contextual determination of messages
What distinguishes contrastive analysis from becoming subsumed under the rubic of “psycholinguistics”
The demarcation of goal and means, allocating them to two different sciences
What is the goal of contrastive analysis
Explain certain aspects of L2 learning
What are the means of contrastive analysis
Descriptive accounts of the learner’s L1 and the L2 to be learn, and techniques for the comparison of these descriptions.
Explain the distinction between the goal and the means of contrastive analysis
The goal belongs to psychology while the means are derived from linguistic science
What are the areas where linguistic description devide?
Phonology, grammar and lexis.
What are the descriptive categories of linguistics?
Unit, structure, class and system.
The term “unit” in grammar refers to what?
Sentence - clause - phrase - word - morpheme.
To what refer the category “structure”
To the arrangement of elements in place.
The procedural orientation of describing phonology is based on what?
On the feasibility and the closed nature of the phonological system
Contrastive analysis is considered what?
A form of psycholinguistics
How many fundamental categories does halliday suggest
Halliday suggest 4 categories: unit, class, structure and system.
What is immediate constituent (IC) analysis?
A method to reduce grammatical constructions into pairs of constituents.
Which linguistic axis refers to the construction type in a language?
Syntagmatic
What does the syntagmatic axis define?
Construction type
