LING 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Grammaticality, Universal Grammar, Meat Grinder
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Prescriptive: what is taught in school, enforced, explicit language rules. Implicit rules actually follower by individuals: what linguists are interested in. Smoking grass can be nauseating: smoking can be verb or adjective. Old men and women left the sinking ship first. [old men and old women] vs [old men] vs women. They said she would go yesterday: they said yesterday vs she would go yesterday. The police shot the man with a gun: police shot with a gun vs the man with a gun. Performance = doing something with the language: we make errors in our speaking, disjointed or slurring speech, two sounds transposed (usually when they are pretty similar, wrong word choice. There"s an innate part of our brain designed to pick up languages: linguistics attempt to find patterns within all languages that obey certain rules. Sentences never combined before that we can still convey meanings from.
