LING 3Q91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dialectology, Paralanguage, Neurolinguistics
12 Sep 2016
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Some words are more common than ohers. What does psephology mean: the statistical study of elections and trends in voting . What is the most common word in english the. The article is more common since its after the noun which is more useful: the article will remain the same, which we hear it more. We don"t usually violate the rules of our first language. But we may not be able to verbalize these rules. What"s wrong with this phrase: he bought a black, small, wooden, round lovely box a lot of adjectives; they are all in the wrong order. Lovely would be first: as a native speaker, we know what is right and wrong; its all in your mind but you can"t verbalize the rules opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose, noun. The systematic study of how people acquire a second language (or l2) .
