LIN232H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Generative Grammar, Universal Grammar, Nominative Case
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I-language: language; the ability of humans to speak any particular language; part of the mind or brain that allows speech to occur (think internal) E-language: language; instantiation of the ability to speak (think external) Generative grammar: sentences are generated by a subconscious set of procedures (rules) that are part of our minds and that tell us the order in which to put our words; these rules generate the sentences. Corpora: a source of data that is in collections of spoken and written text. Falsifiable prediction: to prove that a hypothesis is correct you have to look for data that would prove it wrong. Prescriptive rules: rules that prescribe how people should speak according to some standard. Descriptive rules: rules that describe how people actually speak, whether or not they are speaking correctly Semantically ill-formed (marked by a #): the meaning of the sentence is strange but the form is ok.
