Recalling Prior Knowledge

Linguistics is...

• ...the scientific study of any living thing's language.

• ...the scientific study of human language.

• ...the scientific study of sounds produced by human language.

• ...the scientific study of written languages.

The components of linguistics are...

• Syntactical, morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics.

• Syntax, morphemes, phonology, phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics.

• Syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics.

• Syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics, and grammar.

In one sentence, answer the question:

What's language?

We know a language when...

• we understand it, but there is little production of it.

• we understand it, but we speak it somewhat.

• we produce it however we can.

• we produce it and others comprehend our message.

This human language characteristic provides a person the ability to create an unlimited number of sentences.

• Semanticity

• Productivity

• Displacement

• Speaking

This language characteristic allows humans to match signals (symbols) to specific meanings.

• Semanticity

• Syntax

• Displacement

• Discretness

This language characteristic allows humans to use and move throughout language from past to future time or present in the environment around.

• Displacement

• Cultural transmission

• Pragmatics

• Duality

This language characteristic states that language is organized on a physical and production level.

• Duos

• Cultural transmission

• Discreteness

• Duality

This language characteristic states that messages in the system (language) are built up of small parts and how these can be broken down into units of sounds.

• Displacement

• Cultural transmission

• Discreteness

• Duality

This language characteristic establishes that a language is learned by using and interacting with other language users; it is not genetically transmitted.

• Cultural awareness

• Cultural transmission

• Cultural transformation

• Cultural transition