LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Competence, Grammaticality, Language Change
30 Jan 2016
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Linguistic competence: the knowledge you have about the words in your language (mental lexicon) and how to use and understand your language (mental grammar). The english language has many vowels, depending on pronunciation. What you might not know: language isn"t written: Many languages do not have a written form; no languages with only a written form. Writing, unlike speaking, must e explicitly taught: language is not perspective grammar. It is not a set of rules imposed by those in authority. It is not the rules you had to be taught in english class. Good: i did nothing; i didn"t do anything. What is grammar? speakers: mental grammar: the (unconscious) linguistic competence of, descriptive grammar: the description of the mental grammar, prescriptive grammar: set of rules imposed on a language or dialect. Describes the linguistic competence of (native) speakers. This includes the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and lexicon of a language or dialect. Does not tell you how you should speak.
