Midterm Yada ( Zhu ming xing )

1a. Language has often been characterized as a systematic correlation between certain types of gestures and meaning. For spoken language, the gestures are oral, and for signed language, they are manual.
Language as a correlation between gestures and meaning:
It is not the case that every possible meaning that can be expressed is correlated with a unique, unanalyzable gesture, be it oral or manual. Rather, each language has a stock of meaning-bearing elements and different ways of combining them to express different meanings, and these ways of combining them are themselves meaningful.

1b. Language as a correlation between gestures and meaning:
All of the examples looked at so far involve simple sentences, but one of the most important syntactic properties of language is that simple sentences can be combined in various ways to form complex sentences. One could say that syntax makes possible the formulation of expressions with complex meanings ort of elements with simple meanings. One of the defining features of human language is its unlimited nature; that is, the number of meaningful expressions that can be produced by users of a human language is potentially infinite, and this expressive potential comes from the combination of the basic meaningful elements with syntactic principles. Much of the interest in language in psychology and cognitive science comes from what the study of the cognitive mechanisms underlying language use and acquisition can reveal about the human mind.


2a. This sentence is a declarative sentence. It is present and negate sentence.
Barking is adjective as attribute.
Dogs is noun as subject.
Does is verb as predicate.
Not is adverb as negate adverb.
Bite is verb as object.

2b. All is adjective.
Men is noun.
Create is transitive verb.
Equal is adjective.

2c. How is adverb .
Long is intransitive verb.
Is is verb.
Your is adjective.
Feet is noun.
One is adjective.
Foot is noun.

3a. Competence/ performance
A good deal of normal speech consists of false starts disconnected phrases and other deviations from idealized competence. We get the competence more then performance.

3b. Species-Specific
We do have seems to me to support the view that the ability to acquire and use language is specific human capacity, that there are very deep and restrictive principles that determine that nature of human language and rooted in the specific character of human mind.

3c. LAD
The study of language in general and of particular languages of the pettern of their grammar

3d. PPT
If the acquisition of grammatical competence is indeed controlled by genetically endowed language faculty incorporating a theory of UG , it follows that certain aspects of child and adult competion are know without experience and hence must be part of the genetic information about language with which we are biologically endowed at birth.

4a. The sentence in Thai are not change when we say about past, present or future but in English we must change the verb every case. For example we are talking about past we change verb into verb past participle.

4b. - The number in Thai and English are different .The people in Thailand say, one, two, three, four, five…but the people in England say, the First, Second, Third, Fourth

4c -I think sentence of thai and English are not different for example : this is my book. –in English . but Thai sentence is หนัง สือเล่มนี้ของชัน (book this is my) and also Phrase Structure sometimes is not different, For example : Thai words is บ้านฉัน(house my) but English words is my house

5. Employ any means to show clearly the concept of “Constituent’ and ‘Construction’ of the following sentence.
John normally smokes cigarettes in the morning.
This clause comprises three constituents (i.e. structural units) the function of which is already familiar—namely the subject John, the predicate smokes and the complement cigarettes. But what is the function of the expression in the morning which also occurs in? Since in the morning and normally does not refer to one of the entities directly involved in the act of smoking, it isn’t an argument of the predicate smokes. On the contrary, it simply serves to provide additional information abort the time when the smoking activity takes place.

6a. Micheal Moore wrote a book about the President George Bush and Donal Rumsfeld
6b. Kkenny G performed his concert in Bangkok and in Uttaradit
6c. His Majesty the King is highly regarded not only as the talented Jazz musician but also as the great scientist.

Zhu Ming Ying( ญาดา )
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