Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Psycholinguistics: study of language acquisItion, Storage, comprehension, and production Neurolinguistics: study of the neural and electrochemical bases of language development and use

Antonymy is a standard technical term used for oppositeness of meaning between lexemes

Linguistic Meaning The meaning of linguistic items. (linguistic item= anything, from word, to a grammatical morpheme or a combination of words). Different from personal/social/ cultural meanings

Morphology and Syntax England's Queen is Elizabeth l The Queen of England is Elizabeth He loves books He is a lover of books The planes which fly are red The flying planes are red He is hungrier than she He is more hungry than She

1. Parsing This boy can solve the problem This boy can solve the problem

featuresof WORD Word: a unit of expression that has universal intuitive recognition by native speakers but difficult to define 1. Three senses of a word 2. Identifications of words 3. Classification of words

say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson, \A Word\ A particular string of sounds must be united with a meaning and a meaning must be united with specific sounds in order for the sounds or the meaning to be a word in our mental lexicon. A word, then, is a free form which does not consist entirely of (2/3) lesser free forms; in brief

Important Concepts(2) Langue Parole 2. Competence Performance 12 3. Synchronic Vs diachronic 4. Etic vs. Emic

I. The Definition of language II. Design Features of language III. Functions of language

一、健康的概念 健康(heal th)一词,在古代英语中有强壮(hale)、结实(sound)和完整(whole) 的意思,这也是人们的共识。但在不同时期,不同的人对健康的认识又不完全相同,有些 人认为主观感觉良好或检查不出疾病就是健康,他们根据自己的感觉,有无症状及能否从 事日常的活动,判断自己是否健康;另外一个人的年龄、社会经济地位、文化背景、教 育程度、经验、个人的价值观和希望等都影响他们对健康的看法