TOPIC 1: NATURE OF LANGUAGE
Build knowledge webs
Productivity
definition
* Known as open-endedness
* That can be used to produce new instances of the same type, which closely connected to word formation.
Universal properties of language
variability
The English language varies on individual, regional, national and global levels.
FACTORS - regional (geographical), ethnic (national and racial), and social (class, age, gender, socioeconomic status and education).
Modularity
Chomsky's modularity hypothesis
A set of components subsystems in a coordinated way
Regions of brain and language processing
Branches in linguistic
Arbitrariness
Subtopic
example
Example, in numbers as well. They sound different in different language, though they mean the same
find what's important
Necessary connection between a word's meaning and its sound or form.
Discreteness
Human language and animal language
The differences pronunciation of alphabets between English and Indonesia
* The range of sounds that human beings can make is continuous.
* The uniqueness of the sounds used in human languages.
* Every language use a set of different sounds.
- The range of sounds that human beings can make is continuous.
- The uniqueness of the sounds used in human languages.
- Every language use a set of different sounds.
Constituency and recursion
'''consistuency'''
* Allowing more complex units to enter structures where simpler ones are also possible.
* For example, we can say, ‘she sat down,’ ‘the smart woman sat down
Recursion
*allows grammatical processes to be applied repeatedly
* expand a short sentence into longer sentences
eg: '''He was tall and strong and handsome and thoughtful and a good listener and…
