Questions Answers

1. What is language? Language is a form of communication, whether

it is spoken, written or signs that is based on a
system of symbols.
2. How important Language is? Language as defined is a form of
communication, thus, it is very important in all
aspect in order for us to communicate and to
create understanding that contribute peace and
harmony for all of us.

3. What languages have some common
characteristics to all human?
These includes infinite generatively and
organizational rules.
4. What are the Languages ruler
systems?
These are the organization involve 5 system of
rules.

Infinite generativity is the ability to produce an
endless number of meaningful sentences using
finite set of words and rules.

Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and
pragmatics.

5. What is Phonology? It is a language consists of rules regading how
sounds are perceived as different and which
sounds sequences and occurs in the language.
Ex. Sp, ba and ar / k-sound ski, c-sound- cat
6. What is the basic sound in a
Language?
Phoneme is the basic sound in unit of sound
that affects meaning.
7. What is Morphology? It refers to the units of meaning involved in
word for nation. A morphene is a unit of sound
that conveys a specific meaning. Every word in
English language is made up of one or more
morphemes.

Ex. Help is a single morpheme.
Help +er more than one morpheme.

Morphemes ave may jobs in grammar, such as
marking tense

Ex. She walks versus she walked and number-
she walks versus they walk.


8. What is SYNTAX? Involves the way words are combined to form
acceptable phrases and sentences.
Ex. Of short sentences

The cat killed the mouse.
The mouse ate the cheese.
The farmer chases the cat.

Ex. Of more complex sentences
The farmer chases the cat that killed the
mouse.

The mouse that the cat killed ate the cheese.

9. What is Semantics? It is the meaning of words and sentences.

Ex. Of a sentence
The bicycle talked the boy into buying a candy
bar is syntactically correct. The sentence
violates our semantic knowledge that bicycle
cannot talk.


10. What is Pragmatics? Pragmatics is the appropriate use of language
in context.



11. What are the Rule Systems of Language?
Rule system Description Examples
1. Phonology The sound system of a
language. A phoneme is the
smallest sound unit in a
language.
The word chat has tree
phonemes or sounds: /ch/ /a/
/t/. An example of
Phonological rule in the
English consonant cluster
(such as track or drab), the
phoneme /l/ cannot follow
these letters.
2. Morphology The system of meaningful
units involved in word
formation.
The smallest sound units than
have a meaning are called
morphemes, or meaning unit;
it cannot be broken down any
further and still have meaning.
When the suffix s is added, the
word becomes girls and has
two morphemes because the s
changed the meaning of the
word, indicating that there is
more than one girl.
3. Syntax The system that involves the
way words are combined to
form acceptable prases and
sentences.
Word order is very important
in determining meaning in the
English language. For
example the sentence,
Sebastian pushed the bike
has a different meaning than
the bike pushed Sebastian.
4. Semantics The system that involves the
meaning of words and
sentences.
Knowing the meaning of
individual words- that is,
vocabulary. For example,
semantics includes knowing
the meaning of such words as
orange, transportation and
intelligent.
5. Pragmatics The system of using
appropriate conversation and
knowledge of how to
effectively use language in
context.
An example is using polite
language in appropriate
situations, such as being
mannerly wen talking with
ones teacher. Taking turns in
a conversation involve
pragmatics.