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Summary of Yule's The Study of Language. Missing chapters are: 3,4,15,17.
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1.
Explain the Innateness Hypothesis
Réponse: The belief that genetic changes caused humans to be the only species with the capacity for language
2.
Name the features that distinguish human language from animal communication
Réponse: Reflexivity, displacement, arbitrariness, cultural transmission, productivity, duality
3.
What is reflexivity?
Réponse: Using language to think and talk about language. Humans are able to reflect on language and its uses.
4.
Explain The Rebus Principle
Réponse: When the symbol for one entity is taken over as the symbol for the sounds of the word. The symbol is then used whenever that sounds occurs in any word. One symbol can now be used in many ways. Eye = ^ , causing \'I\' to also be ^ , causing defy to also end in ^
5.
Explain what orthography is and why the English orthography is so variated
Réponse: Orthography = the spelling system of a language. The English spelling system is so variated, because: - A lot of words are borrowed (Greek /ph/) - Early printers were Flemish - Pronunciation has undergone substantial changes since the 15th century
6.
What is derivation?
Réponse: Adding affixes to words to create new ones. (un-, pre-, -ful, -ish)
7.
Explain the difference between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme
Réponse: A free morpheme can stand on itself as a single word (dress, tour), they are mostly basic nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. A boun morpheme cannot stand alone and are typically attached to another form, they are all affixes (re-, -ed, -s)
8.
Explain the two categories of free morphemes
Réponse: - Lexical morphemes: word that carry the content of the message we convey (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) - Functional morphemes: have a function but no content on their own (articles, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns).
9.
Explain the two categories of bound morphemes
Réponse: - Derivational morphemes: bound forms we use to make new words or a different grammatical category (critic-ize , encourage-ment) - Inflectional morphemes: not used to produce new words, but to indicate the grammatical function (boy-s , laugh-ing)
10.
Explain agreement and what it can be based on
Réponse: Agreement = the grammatical connection between two parts of a sentence. It can be based on: number (single, plural), person (first, second, third), tense (present, past) and gender (Cathy - her)
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