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Today Rules, Linguistic competence vs.
linguistic performance Design features Animal communication vs.
human language Please write down this url: http://media.animal.discovery.com/fansites/ petstar/videogallery/season3/ep309_winner.html
Readings: 1.3,1.4;2.1-2.4
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Linguistic competence What we know when we ‘know’ a
language. This knowledge is largely unconscious
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How do we study linguistic competence?
By observing a speaker’s linguistic
performance.
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Grammar Descriptive grammar
Describes the rules that govern what people do or can say (their “mental grammar”)
Prescriptive grammar Prescribes rules governing what people
should/shouldn’t say
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Prescriptive rules“Don’t end a sentence w/
preposition!”“Don’t split infinitives!”“Don’t use double negatives!”
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Descriptive rules are linguists’ attempt to represent your mental grammar. Descriptive rules are natural, followed intuitively, need not be taught
Prescriptive rules are not natural, must be learned by rote (in school)
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language vs. communication
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Design features Charles Hockett (1960) Characterize language, distinguish it from
other communication systems If a system lacks even one feature, it is
communication, not language
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Design features
Discreteness Arbitrariness Cultural transmission Displacement Interchangeability Productivity
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Discreteness Larger, complex messages can be broken
down into smaller, discrete parts
e.g., [pat]
[tap]
[apt]
p
a t
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Arbitrariness There is no (necessary) connection
between the form of signal and its meaning e.g., ‘whale’ is small word for big animal,
‘microorganism’ is just the reverse
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Cultural transmission At least some aspect of communication
system is learned from other users
e.g., child of French-speaking parents will learn French
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Displacement Ability to talk about things not present in
space or time
e.g.,
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Interchangeability A user can both receive and broadcast
the same signal
e.g., speaker can be listener and vice versa
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Productivity Speakers can create infinite number of
novel utterances that others can understand
e.g., “Little purple gnomes
living in my sock drawer
said, ‘Elvis lives’.”
Elvis lives!!
/
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Vervet monkeys 3 alarm calls for different predators
‘snake’ ‘eagle’ ‘leopard’http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab/media/vervetcalls.html
Young vervets make mistakes
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Vervet communication Yes:
Arbitrariness, Cultural transmission, Interchangeability
No: Displacement, Productivity, Discreteness
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‘Einstein’ the parrot At home: Watch the following clip of Einstein
the parrot
http://media.animal.discovery.com/fansites/petstar/videogallery/season3/ep309_winner.html
What design features does he exhibit / fail to exhibit?
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Multidimensionality Human language consists of several
levels or dimensions of knowledge used by linguists to separate language
into areas of study not entirely “modular” or discrete (e.g.,
phonetics and phonology inform each other)
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Core Subfields Phonology: the study of how speech
sounds pattern and how they are organized (i.e., the sound system)
e.g., art, *rta (where ‘*’ = ungrammatical)
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Core Subfields Morphology: the study of the formation
of words.
e.g., unhappiness un-happy-ness
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Core Subfields Syntax: the study of the structure of
sentences.
e.g., She hit the man with a hammer.
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Core Subfields Semantics: the study of meaning in
language.
Pragmatics: the study of how linguistic meaning depends on context.