LING 200 Lecture 11: LING 200 Lecture 11
24 Dec 2018
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Linguistics: scientific study of language and (linguistic) communication. We use language when : talking, listening, reading, thinking, dreaming. What do you know when you know a language: form: knowing words of the language and the rules for putting those words together, function: knowing how to communicate/express yourself in the language. Tacit linguistic knowledge: we know a lot of things about our language that we don"t know we know, we know things that are not explicitly taught when we learn a language. Which of the following is most likely to be an english word: knoep, frink, kdvo. B is the most likely answer because the sequence of sounds aligns with the rules of. In examples 2 and 3, the bolded options are judged to be grammatically correct by native english speakers. No one has explicitly taught them that the options with the asterisk (*) are ungrammatical.
