On Linguistics (Kartei)

14 Karteikarten

• 1
  Properties of human language

  - specialization (no other purpose) - semanticity (about ...
• 2
  Competence vs. Performance

  - Competence: The theoretical abstract ability of doing ...
• 3
  Levels of Linguistic Processing

  - Phonetic: Sounds recognized as speech and classified - ...
• 4
  Grimm's law

  "Sound shift" of consonants from Proto-Indo-European to ...
• 5
  Neo-Grammarian Manifesto

  Every sound change, in as much as it occurs mechanically, ...
• 6
  Ferdinand de Saussure's Structuralism

  - Language as a structure "où tout se tient" (where ...
• 7
  Structuralism: Which types of relations?

  - Paradigmatic relations: Relations with all elements that ...
• 8
  Structuralist Phonology: How do linguistic sounds receive ...

  *Not* from physical quality (as in phonetics), but from ...
• 9
  synchronic vs. diachronic study

  state (Saussure's structuralism) vs. process (study of ...
• 10
  American structuralism

  Scientific explanation of linguistic behaviour - ...
• 11
  Chomsky's Mentalism

  - focus on _competence_ (vs. performance) - _creativity_ - ...
• 12
  Universal Grammar

  characterises the innate human language faculty
• 13
  Grammar (linguistic meaning)

  A theory of what the system underlying the language use is ...
• 14
  Components of a grammar

  - Phonetics (speech sounds) - Phonology (the sound ...