LING101 Lecture Notes - Language Acquisition, Historical Linguistics, Morpheme
10 Sep 2013
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Linguistic competence implicitly knowing about the structures/meanings in our language(s) That"s because this knowledge is stored in your subconscious memory) Grammar rules like this are also built into our memories subconsciously) Prescriptive this type of grammar tells people how they should speak/write in a certain scenario. Descriptive this type of grammar describes how people normally speak (ex. *descriptive grammars are the primary concern in linguistics. It is the study of natural human language and how it works: physically, mentally, socially (ex. How differently might you speak to you mother as comparable to your friend?: historically (ex. Elizabethan english vs. modern-day english: developmentally (ex. Acquiring new vocabulary and learning new syntax rules as you get older and become more educated) Ing , cat, un- : syntax studies the process behind the patterning of words into phrases of sentences, semantics studies the correlation between form and meaning (how are words and sentences interpreted?) Generality all languages have their own grammar systems.
