Language Flashcards
(18 cards)
Linguistic system is a combination of?
Properties of language, structure of language (it’s representations), use of language.
5 Properties of language?
Arbitrariness, Rule-governed, Meaningful, Generative, Displacement
Semantics
meanings of words and sentences
Syntax
set of rules governing the combination
Relationship of syntax structure and semantics create
Surface structure and deep structure of words
Rules to use language socially and communicatively are
Discourse Pragmatics
Speech Act
sentences contribute toward achieving the speaker’s communicative goal.
Speech acts combined of
locutionary force, illocutionary force and perlocutionary force
The literal meaning of a sentence is its
Locutionary force
The speaker’s intended meaning of a sentence is
Illocutionary force
Types of Illocutionary force:
Representative, Dircetive, Commissive, Expressive, Declarative
The effect of a sentence on a listener
Perlocutionary force
Indirect speech act
Locutionary force does not match the illocutionary force
Speech segmentation
perceiving where each word ends
Equipment for speech segmentation:
Distribution of sounds, stressed syllable constraint (Norris, 97), context (Pollack and Pickett 64)
Experimental paradigms in word recognition
Naming task, Lexical decision task, Semantic task
Types of primes?
Form priming, Morphological priming, Context priming
Linguistic relativity hypothesis
Language limits our thinking, Lee Whorf