Unit 1 Flashcards
What is linguistics
The scientific study of human language
what is language
a structured human communication system
what do linguists do
study how people aquire their knowledge about language
phonetics
the study of speech sounds (pa, ta, ka)
phonology
the study of sound system (speech sounds organized in a system to create words)
morphology
the study or word structure (words, affixes)
sematics
the study of meaning (implications)
syntax
the study of sentance structure
arbitrary
no connection between sound of a word and what it refers to
iconicity
sound of word does resemble its meaning
discrete signal
“be quiet” string of separate units
non discrete
“shhhhhhh”
displacement
NOT here
NOT now
NOT true
productivity
can say infinitly many things
novel utterances
sentances that have never been made before
other name for voice box
Larynx
McGurk effect
throwing your off with different audio to visual
linguistic competence
subconcious knowledge of your first language
linguistic preformace
what you say, what comes out your mouth
syntactic properties
where can words appear in a sentance
morphological properties
what prefixes and suffixes can a word take
