Resumen Language And Speech.
The spoken language is more basic than the written language. A distinction must be drawn between language signals and the medium in which the signals are realized.It’s possible to read aloud what is written and conversely, to written down what is spoken; in so far as language is independent, in this sense, of the medium in which language-signals are realized, wewill say that language has the property of medium transferability. Until recently grammarians have been concerned almost exclusively with the language of literature and have taken little account of thecolloquial speech. They’ve taken the norms of literature as norms of correctness.
Scholar came to realize that changes in the language could be explained in terms of changes that had taken place inthe corresponding spoken language. The continuity and ubiquity of language-change is considerably obscured in the written text of the past.
The usage of one region has served as the basis for tedevelopment of a standard literary language in particular communities.
The Historical priority: There’s no human society known to exist or have existed at any time in the past without the capacity ofspeech.
The structural priority of spoken language may be explained as follows. Make the assumption that every acceptable spoken sentence and conversely, then we have no reason of either think of manyof ice. If the theoretically ideal case of a one-to-one correspondence holding between the spoken and the written, each written sentence will be isomorphic.
Particular letter will stand incorrespondence with articular sound and particular combinations of letters will be in one.to-one correspondence, as words or phrases, with particular combintions of sound. The potentiality that the soundsused in a particular language have for combining with one another is totally unpredictable in terms of their shape.
In this respect, therefore, spoken language is structurally more basic than...
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