Language Flashcards

(18 cards)

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Linguistic system is a combination of?

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Properties of language, structure of language (it’s representations), use of language.

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2
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5 Properties of language?

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Arbitrariness, Rule-governed, Meaningful, Generative, Displacement

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3
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Semantics

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meanings of words and sentences

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4
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Syntax

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set of rules governing the combination

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5
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Relationship of syntax structure and semantics create

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Surface structure and deep structure of words

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6
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Rules to use language socially and communicatively are

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Discourse Pragmatics

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Speech Act

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sentences contribute toward achieving the speaker’s communicative goal.

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Speech acts combined of

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locutionary force, illocutionary force and perlocutionary force

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9
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The literal meaning of a sentence is its

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Locutionary force

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10
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The speaker’s intended meaning of a sentence is

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Illocutionary force

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Types of Illocutionary force:

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Representative, Dircetive, Commissive, Expressive, Declarative

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12
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The effect of a sentence on a listener

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Perlocutionary force

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13
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Indirect speech act

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Locutionary force does not match the illocutionary force

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14
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Speech segmentation

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perceiving where each word ends

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15
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Equipment for speech segmentation:

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Distribution of sounds, stressed syllable constraint (Norris, 97), context (Pollack and Pickett 64)

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16
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Experimental paradigms in word recognition

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Naming task, Lexical decision task, Semantic task

17
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Types of primes?

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Form priming, Morphological priming, Context priming

18
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Linguistic relativity hypothesis

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Language limits our thinking, Lee Whorf