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LING 202  2/8 Lecture 1 – Nature of Human Language   A grammar is a speaker’s knowledge of 5 kinds of properties of language:    1. Phonetics – basic speech sounds    2. Phonology – how those sounds are represented and combined    3. Morphology – words; basic units of phrases and of meaning    4. Syntax – how phrases are built from those basic units     5. Semantics – how the meaning of linguistic units and complexes is determined 4 key properties…    1. Productivity – every human language has an unlimited number of       sentences.          a. Is there a longest sentence?                i. No – more words can always be added (in various ways)                ii. Recursion (“bolder than bolder than bold”)          b. How common are new sent

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School: University of Delaware

Department: Linguistics

Course: Science of Language

Term: Winter 2016

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School: University of Delaware

Department: Linguistics

Course: Science of Language

Term: Winter 2016

Tags: Linguistics

Cost: 25

Name: Week 1 notes

Description: First lecture

Uploaded: 02/18/2016

4 pages

LING 202 Exam Study Guide

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Ling 202, Lect 1

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LING 202 Exam Study Guide

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