LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Noam Chomsky, Robert Lowth, Spanish Phonology
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[x] is not an english sound, but used in spanish. Morphology : structure of words (how to build good words) (rule) Rules allow us to create and understand novel forms. Syntax : structure of sentences (how to build good phrases and sentences) (rules) Semantics : meaning of language (meaning of words and sentences) (rules) Can use finite set of building blocks and rules > to create an infinite set of new sentences. Know how to combine words (did not memorize of the possible sentences of a. Can create and understand novel sentences language) Linguistic competence : what you can do, when you know a language. Ex: have knowledge to construct sentence with 35 subordinate clauses. Descriptive grammar : describes the rules that a native speaker actually uses. Prescriptive grammar : dictates the rules that a speaker must follow. Some prescriptive rules are just historical accidents. Trying to adopt rules from math and logic into english sentences with a preposition.
