basics of language
Smallest unit of sound
What is a phoneme?
Theory that language ability is inborn
What is innate language ability?
Rules for organizing words into sentences
What is syntax?
Smallest unit of meaning
What is a morpheme?
Idea that language is separate from other cognitive skills
What is modularity?
Study of meaning in language
What is semantics?
Study of how words are formed from morphemes
What is morphology?
Structure representing underlying meaning
What is deep structure?
Social rules of language use
What is pragmatics?
Approximate number of languages in the world
What is about 7,000?
Structure representing how a sentence appears
What is surface structure?
Combines morphology and syntax
What is grammar?
Estimated vocabulary size range for human
What is 20,000–100,000 words?
When one sentence has multiple meanings
What is ambiguity?
Why pragmatics is important
What is understanding context and the listener?