Linguistics Exam 1

grammar is of grammar brought about by grammarians to legislate what speakers' grammatical rules should be

grammar is a linguist's description of the grammar, including units, structures, and rules. An explicit statement of what speakers know about their language.

grammar as the basic that all languages follow; it is part of the biologically endowed human language faculty.

What are the features of language that suggested?
- Discreetness; language has parts and units
- arbitrariness; sounds have no meaning inherently
- displacement; the ability to communicate actions and time/events/location that is not exactly at that moment or place
- duality of patterning; we can give sound meaning
-openness; the ability and flexibility to add new words, and no limit to what I can talk about; ex. abstract ideas
-cultural transmission; we acquire language based on our social environment

is located front part of the left hemisphere of the brain, damage to which causes / Broca's aphasia.

is located (posterior) part of the left brain that if damaged causes a specific type of aphasia.

are fibers connecting the right and left cerebral hemispheres.

of brain function. Term used to refer to cognitive functions localized ton one or other hemisphere of the brain.

How do we know the linguistics functions are generally lateralized?

aphasia: characterized by labored speech and certain kinds kinds of word-finding difficulties; affects person's ability to form sentences with the rules of .

aphasics: they produce fluent speech with good information and their language is often incoherent.

What do we know about language acquisition and the critical period based on children with atypical exposure to language when they were growing up?

Based on cases such as Genie, "the wild child", a girl who was rarely exposed to language and people in her first 13 years of her life shed light into the critical period/sensitive period: A period were is to acquire language, as you age, your ability to acquire langue is more , as seen in the case of Genie.

Are there any issues that have not been considered?

is mostly not accounted and its effect in the acquisition of language in a child.

What Hockett features of language do honey bees demonstrate and what important aspects are they lacking?
-; able to talk about a location (distance and direction of food (richness) even though they are not there, by doing specific movement.
-lacking ; bees not able to communicate never-before-heard sentences and able to visualize/understand and coherently understand it.

words: are the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs that constitute the major part of the vocabulary.

words: are words that do not always have a clear lexical meaning but has grammatical function.

It is if it changes part of speech or if it changes the meaning of the word.

It is if it does not change part of speech and does not change the meaning of the word.

pairs in ASL are signs that use the same handshape, location, and orientation, but have a different movement.

The verb of a noun verb pair generally has a single, continuous movement that is larger than the movement of the noun.

example: hand motion for the noun word 'airplane'. add forward movement for the hand motion for 'airplane' and it becomes the verb 'to fly'

affixation in ASL, is a process in which sequential morpheme process occurs in order to give information about a word.

Example: Sign for 'TEACH' + Sign for 'ER' = TEACHER is an example of using a sequential morpheme process

On the other part, there is simultaneous affixation too but is mostly used in sign language rather than spoken language. And Sequential affixation is mostly seen in spoken language.

in ASL includes a sign motion plus repeated movement to adhere such characteristic.

Example. in the image

Grammaticality and well-formedness

The following sentence is meaningless, yet grammatically acceptable:
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Alternatively, a sentence that is not well-formed, but makes some sense is:
Me Tarzan, you Jane.

Difference between semantics and pragmatics

Semantics studies the of a word while pragmatics sees how and the situation affects the meaning of a word.

Plain verb vs Agreement verb

A plain verb is a normal verb in ASL. When using plain verbs the signer must the subject and the object. Examples of plain verbs in ASL are PLAY, RUN, JUMP, and SING.

Agreement verb verbs allow the signer to the subject and object into the verb in one fluid motion. Examples of inflecting verbs in ASL are GIVE, INFORM, TELL, PICK-ON, SEND, and PAY.

Truth relations: Entailment, Tautology, and Contradiction

Entailment: the relationship between two sentences, where the truth of one necessitates the truth of the other.
Example: The officer warned the minors to not drink again.
Entailment: the minors drinked

Tautology: My brother is a male
True in all senses

Contradiction: My aunt is a man.

Deictics:

I saw her standing there.
---> the deictic in this sentence is 'there'

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.
---> the deictic in this sentence are 'yesterday', 'my', 'so far away'

Presuppositions

We went to the ballpark again.
Presupposition: The group of people (2 or more) have been to the park already before.

Implicatures

A: Smith doesn't have any girlfriends these days.
B: He's been driving over the West End a lot lately

The implicature in this example is that Smith has a girlfriend in the West End. Implicatures are deductions that are not made strictly on the basis of the content expressed in the discourse.

Grice's

Quality: do not lie
Relevance: be relevant
Manner: be clear, easy to understand, avoid ambiguity
Quantity: say neither more nor less than the discourse requires

Syntax tree example on image

Start with
then to NP and VP