语言学第三单元Chapter-1-intro.pptVIP

People used to think that language had the power to make things happen. If one uttered a curse that a person would be struck by lightning, the person would surely die a violent death. In many cultures wouds were used to control events and became souces of power if chanted again and again. It was taboo to speak of sinkingand overturn on a ship, because these words were believed to have the magic to turn the ship over. * A grammar includes everything one knows about the structure of one’s language: Phonetics and Phonology (the sounds and the sound system or patterns) Lexicon (the words or vocabu