Week 1 Intro Flashcards
Define what speech is
Oral communication of human thought and emotions by speech sounds and gesture
Define what language is
A set of arbitrary words or symbols communicated by voice, writing or sign language
Define what language is
A set of arbitrary words or symbols communicated by voice, writing or sign language
Define ‘communication’
The act of communicating
Transmitting or exchanging thoughts, opinions or info through speech, writing or signs
Simple way of organising language into 3 areas
M
F
U
Meaning
Form
Use
What does ‘meaning’ refer to?
Semantics (word and sentence meaning)
What does ‘form’ refer to?
Sound structure
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- morphology
- syntax
What are the 6 domains of language?
Phonetics
phonology
morphology
syntax
semantics
pragmatics
What is phonetics
Study of speech sounds
- How we produce (articulatory)
- How we perceive (auditory)
- Physical properties (acoustic)
What does articulatory refer to?
How we produce sounds
What does auditory refer to?
How we perceive sounds
What does acoustic refer to?
The physical properties of sounds
What is phonology?
The sound system of a language (eg English has a particular set of sounds we use. There are sounds in some languages that are not in others)
Rules about where different sounds can exist in words
What is morphology?
- The internal structure of words
- Words consist of one or more morphemes
What is syntax?
Orgnaisation of words into phrases and phrases into sentences
