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30 Cards in this Set
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Langue
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Underlying abstract system of language
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Parole
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Actual speech
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Recursivity
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The capacity of language to embed an infinite number of elements into its grammatical structure
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proto-language
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no written proof
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shakespeare wrote how many words
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17,000
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French Academy
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Has power to accept/reject changes to French Language - Remove Americanisms
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Current grammar problems
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hopefully, sexist language, looking to
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Renaissance
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interest in greek/latin - vernacular
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descriptive grammar
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considers what speaker knows about language and how they use it
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prescriptive grammar
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concerned w/ right or wrong
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Latin
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Inflected language - only 23 letters - no word order
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1776
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Dec of Ind - A.S. wealth of nations - Cambell's philosophy of rhetoric
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William Paxton
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Printing to england
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OED
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70yrs
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Chrestomatic
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devoted to the learning of useful matter
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Ferdinand de Saussare
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synchronically
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alphabetic writing emerged as
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shorthand where symbols = sounds
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alphabet
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ox house
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Diff b/n greek alphabet and semitic
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greek focus on vowels
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Boustrophedon
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as the ox turns
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c k q g
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confusion of hard and soft sounds
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universal grammer
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innate function that allows infants to acquire language
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suck test
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special pacifier connected to a moniter
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parentese
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baby talk
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steven pinker says
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brain is wired to recognize phrases not words - we can put phrases in all kinds of orders
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2 most common sentence types
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svo (subject verb object) and svc (subject verb compliment)
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sentence patterns based on
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Verbs
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language acq occurs in
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left hemi
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wernicke's aphasia
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misapplied words/ nonsense
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Broca's aphasia
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problems with production
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