Language
- Created by: Chloe
- Created on: 24-04-15 21:03
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- Language
- Main functions: (1) External communications (2) Internal representations of own thoughts
- Language terms: •Phoneme - smallest unit of language • Morpheme - basic unit of meaning •Syntax - grammatical rules concerned with word order & inflection • Word order - subject - verb object • Inflection - a change in or addition to the form of a word which shows a change on the way it is used in sentences
- Grammar: •Semantics (meaning of words) • Pragmatics (our knowledge of the social views that underlay language use •Lexicon (set of vocabulary
- Chomsky's Approach (1965): (1) Competence = peoples knowledge of language VS (2) Performance = production & comprehension of utterances
- Humans are equipped with 'innate' language skills
- Linguistic competence structure; sentences can share the same surface structure but differ in deep structure
- Transformational rules: changing round the order of words in a sentence to produce a more complex sentence
- Irreversible sentence: The girl is watering the flowers / the flowers are watering the girl Reversible sentence: The cat is being chased by the dog / the dog is being chased by the cat
- •Transformations affect time to evaluate sentences •Negative sentences take longer to evaluate
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