LING 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Prescription, Phonological Rule, Linguistic Performance
24 Sep 2018
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Refers to what we know about language (knowledge of language) We have to make a clear distinction between linguistic competence and linguistic performance: performance: what you actually say, presumably derives from competence. Most of it is subconscious (we are not aware we know about) Sometimes referred to as i-language (i= internal: the guy [i saw] relative clause. Includes all aspects of structure (phonological, morphological, and syntactic) English has borrowed the vast majority from other languages a lot of french phrases: in french adjectives follow the noun, ex) governor general, attorney general noun followed by an adjective, pluralized: governors general. Internalized a rule system (that is abstract and complicated) * lexicon: one part of language that continues to grow along the life time (this: the sound, they will often substitute alveolar stop [dv] slows down, but i continues) Is innate knowledge language particular no, we learn whatever language we are exposed to.
