LIN232H1 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Hackney Carriage, Syntactic Category, Phrase Structure Rules
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Study of how the organization of sounds and words become meaning. Lies between morphology and semantics: often, the lines between syntax and semantics is blurred. What are we studying: e-language vs. i-language, prescriptive vs. descriptive, learned vs. acquired, performance vs. Competence i-language (capital l") vs. e-language (lowercase l") Both terms i- and e- language come from chomsky i-language (capital l") Human language capacity (the human ability to speak a language) Basically states that all humans are capable of speaking any language if they acquire it. Eg. someone born into speaking an african dialect"s complex sounds vs. languages with rolling r" sounds: we are all capable of producing these sounds from a young age. What we study as syntacticians e-language (lowercase l") Prescriptive vs. descriptive: prescriptive grammars/rules: prescribe how we should speak (according to some language authority", descriptive grammars/rules: describe how we actually speak. *john and mike like himself: breaks a prescriptive rule:
