LING 1 -- 10/11

Phonetics

study of the sounds of human speech — can understand the inventory of sounds in a particular language

McGurk Effect

shows that you intuitively know the mouth shape of a particular sound

Phonology

understanding the sound patterns that are possible in your language (ex. Wug Test)

Morphology

Know a variety of words + potential words / know how to make more complex words from less complex words

Lexicon

Mental dictionary of the words you know

Syntax

how to build well-formed phrases and sentences in your language

Semantics

you know how to assign meaning to words in a given sentence

Descriptive grammar

linguist’s description or model of the mental grammar (what people actually say)

Prescriptive grammar

rules for grammar used by teachers, for example (what people are “supposed” to say)

Negative concord

when double negatives don’t cancel out in some languages/dialects

Dialect

any variety of a language that is shared with a group of speakers