Quiz 1 (W3)

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  • Linguistics: The scientific study of language.
  • Linguist: A person who studies Linguistics.
  • Phonology: The branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.
  • Phonologist: A linguist who specializes in phonology.
  • Phonemes: is a basic unit of a language's phonology. They are sounds not letters. The same phoneme can be represented by different letters.
  • Morphology: The study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.
  • Morphologist: a linguist who specializes in morphology
  • morphemes: is the smallest unit of language that carries meaning. formed by combining phonemes.
  • Syntax: the study of how words are arranged to create phrases, clauses and sentences.
  • Syntactician: a linguist who specializes in syntax.
  • syntax: forms meaning full sentences above word level
  • semantics: the study of the meaning of phrases, clauses and sentences
  • semanticist: a linguist who specializes in semantics
  • sociolinguistics: the study of language in society.
  • neurolinguistics: the study of language in the brain
  • communication: the transfer of information
  • communication in language: human language allows us to communicate with infinite variety
  • language has arbitrary signs: to assign meaning into certain words. it isnt necessary for there to be a connection between the form of the word and the meaning. Very arbitrary.
  • language has displacement: humans are able to talk about the past and future while animals can only live in the present. we can talk about hopes and dreams which is unique to humans.
  • language has discrete infinity: with limited sounds humans can create an infinite amount of words with different meanings and expressions
  • language is combinatorial: it has the ability to combine words and phrases to mean different things but animals can only communicate a limited number of needs and wants.
  • Properties of language: Arbitrary signs, displacement, discrete infinity, and combinatorial
  • language:
    • human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication
    • a system of communication of meanings through complex arbitrary signals or symbols in a significant syntax