Ling222 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

LING222 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers Lessons on Languages - CORRECT ANSWER- - Some aspects of language are memorized - Some aspects of language involve rules or patterns - If there are rules, they apply to some input to produce an output - Rules apply only to linguistically definable terms

LING222 UPDATED Questions and CORRECT Answers Our knowledge of language is... - CORRECT ANSWER- abstract: words, syllables, stress are not physically definable. unconscious: speakers of pintupi are not aware of the stress rule. rule-governed: stress is computed according to explicit rules that apply to abstract categories like syllables