LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Prescription, French Grammar, Pragmatics
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Linguistics is not learning language, it is learning about language. Prescriptive statement: it"s not telling us the way things are, it is telling us the way things should be. Prescriptive grammar: says that everybody should speak the same way. Descriptive grammar: accepts that everybody speaks in a different way. Grammar: if we only memorized our language, we would not be able to create our own sentences or interpret different sentences. Refers to what goes on in our heads when we produce language. : french grammar is just as good as english grammar. Mutality: grammar is stable at one point in time but it will change over time (the way i speak today is different from the way i will speak three years from now) Inaccessibility: you may choose to say something a certain way and not know why. Phonetics: the actual physical sound that is coming out of your mouth (acoustics, waves, etc)
