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Linguistics Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lexical vs structural ambiguity | Lexical: When a single word has multiple meanings Structural: When the arrangement of the sentence allows for multiple interpretations of the meaning |
| Entailment vs. Presupposition | Entailment - If A is true, B is true. If A is false, we don't know about B Presupposition - If A is true, B is true, If A is false, B is still true |
| Cooperative principle | we can assume that people follow Grice’s maxims in conversation |
| Grice's maxims - quantity | don’t withhold information, don’t provide too much |
| Grice's maxims - Quality | Don’t say what you believe is false or what you lack evidence for (Don’t lie or deceive) |
| Grice's maxims - relation | Be relevant |
| Grice's maxims - manner | Be perspicuous - avoid ambiguity, be brief, be orderly - how the information is presented |
| Grice's maxims | Quantity, Quality, Relation, Manner |
| Uniformitarian Principle and its significance | The idea that language change has been consistent. It changed in the past and it is changing now. |
| 1st wave of variationist linguistics | huge size of group, low agency |
| 2nd wave of variationist linguistics | group - local communities Agency - higher choice between groups |
| 3rd wave of variationist linguistics | Group - very small groups (individuals) Agency - high degree |
| Broca's vs. Wernicke's aphasia | Broca's - know what you want to say but have trouble getting the words out Wernicke's aphasia - can't really understand it, they think that they're making sense |