udling how common are new sentences in speech? how can human languages be (1) learned and (2) used as they are?
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 ling 202 2/8 lecture 1 – nature of human language a grammar is a speaker’s knowledge of 5 kinds of properties of language: 1. phonetics – basic speech sounds 2. phonology – how those sounds are represented and combined 3. morphology – words; basic units of phrases and of meaning 4. syntax – how phrases are built from those basic units 5. semantics – how the meaning of linguistic units and complexes is determined 4 key properties… 1. productivity – every human language has an unlimited number of sentences. a. is there a longest sentence? i. no – more words can always be added (in various ways) ii. recursion (“bolder than bolder than bold”) b. how common are new sent