Language does express meaning as sound.
Sentences are pit together on an assembly line composed of mental modules. One is a storehouse of memorized words, the mental lexicon. Another is a team of rules that combine words and parts of words into bigger words, a component called morphology. A third is a team of rules that combine words into phrases and sentences, a component called syntax.
This interface between language and mind is called semantics. This interface between language and the mouth and ear is called phonology.
A memorized chunk is sometimes called a listeme, an item that has to be memorized as part of a list.
It is called the head of the word, and it stands for the word as a whole in determining its meaning and determining its plural.
When a word made from a phrase is new and fresh, speakers still can perceive the anatomy of the phrase inside the word.
ex: Thursday = Thor's dAY
Breakfast = breaking a fast
Morphology may be divided into derivation- rules that form a new word out of old words.
Syncretism- is one kind of violation of the simplest conceivable system in which every sound has one meaning and vice-versa.
Irregular forms stick like glue to their verb roots, even when reduced to meaningless little tokens inside a bigger verb.
Sentences are pit together on an assembly line composed of mental modules. One is a storehouse of memorized words, the mental lexicon. Another is a team of rules that combine words and parts of words into bigger words, a component called morphology. A third is a team of rules that combine words into phrases and sentences, a component called syntax.
This interface between language and mind is called semantics. This interface between language and the mouth and ear is called phonology.
A memorized chunk is sometimes called a listeme, an item that has to be memorized as part of a list.
It is called the head of the word, and it stands for the word as a whole in determining its meaning and determining its plural.
When a word made from a phrase is new and fresh, speakers still can perceive the anatomy of the phrase inside the word.
ex: Thursday = Thor's dAY
Breakfast = breaking a fast
Morphology may be divided into derivation- rules that form a new word out of old words.
Syncretism- is one kind of violation of the simplest conceivable system in which every sound has one meaning and vice-versa.
Irregular forms stick like glue to their verb roots, even when reduced to meaningless little tokens inside a bigger verb.