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linguistically distinctive units of sound) in spoken language. o grapheme(s): written symbol to represent speech. syntax o rules that govern the formation of sentences from words. o syntactic phrases include: « noun phrase : a tall man, the bus » verb phrase : roam around, hit the ball » prepositional phrase : in the class, at the club « adjective phrase : very good, nice girl o the grammatical rules: » sov: eg. hindi » svo: eg . english grammar othe syntax of a language deals with the grammatical structure of a language. © grammar is the structural foundation of our ability to express ourselves. » descriptive grammar : structure actually used by speakers and writers. » prescriptive grammar : structure that should be used. hierarchy of language: stratification e phonemes « syllables « morphemes ° words ° phrases e clauses ° sentences/utterances ° texts/discourses semantics o study of language …

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context. © how language is used to communicate rather than how it is internally structured. © govern a number of conversational interactions, such as sequential organization, repair of errors, role and speech acts. references o en.wikipedia.org/wiki/linguistics 0 en.citizendium.org/wiki/linguistics o lecture slides thank you

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