LING 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Formal Language, Pragmatics
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Linguistic competence: all of the hidden stuff you have to know in order to. Performance: your actual speaking and using the language speak a language. Performance errors: messing up your speech despite your competence (like forgetting a word or something) Think of an idea you want to communicate. Pronounce the words, and use your vocal chords to speak. Understands the idea you are trying to express. Phonetics: you can decipher which sounds are language (vs other noise) and. Phonology: language-specific pronunciation of words (like we know that which sounds are yours vs other languages. pterodactyl has a silent p because it usually just does in combination with a t). This is also how you can recognize written words that probably aren"t english (because they have unusual letter combinations). ones are not (like nicely vs. bookly) Morphology: you kind of just know which words are grammatical and which. Syntax: how words combine to form phrases and sentences.
