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Notes for “What is Language” Chapter One of Fromkin Rodman & Hymas

Notes for “What is Language” Chapter One of Fromkin Rodman & Hymas. Main Points. Knowledge of a language largely unconscious (sounds, morphemes, syntax, meanings) Arbitrary relationship between form and meaning Onomatopoeic Sounds of the word that supposedly imitate the sounds of nature

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Notes for “What is Language” Chapter One of Fromkin Rodman & Hymas

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  1. Notes for “What is Language”Chapter One of Fromkin Rodman & Hymas

  2. Main Points • Knowledge of a language • largely unconscious (sounds, morphemes, syntax, meanings) • Arbitrary relationship between form and meaning • Onomatopoeic • Sounds of the word that supposedly imitate the sounds of nature • Creative aspect of language (especially syntax) • Grammar • In linguistics this refers not to the rules learned in school. It refers to the unconscious rules that speakers of a language “know” • Descriptive grammar (rules) • this is the grammar linguistics deals with…it describes our linguistic competence • Prescriptive grammar (rules) • a model of grammar that tells how we “should” speak • Language as dynamic and constantly changing • Standard language and Prestige Dialect

  3. Other Points • Linguistic competence vs. performance • Language universals and Universal Grammar • ASL • supports notion that language is inherent (p. 19) • ASL comes from Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet • not signed English • signing to sleep and dreaming in ASL • Animal language • What can animals not do with language? • Language and Thought • quote on page 25 from Orwell • determines our perception?? • politics and the PC movement (p. 28)

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