LING 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Phrase Structure Rules, Adpositional Phrase
21 May 2013
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Creative aspect of linguistic knowledge: speakers" ability to combine finite number of linguistic units of their language to produce and understand an infinite range of novel sentences. Linguistic performance: how you use the knowledge. Grammar: the sounds and sound patterns, the basic units of meaning, such as words, and the rules to combine them to form new sentences. Descriptive grammar- a linguist"s description or model of the mental grammar, including the units, structures, and rules. And explicit statements of what speakers know about their language. Prescriptive grammars- rules of grammar brought by grammarian"s attempt to legislate what speakers" grammatical rules should be, rather than what they are. Prestige dialect: the dialect usually spoken by people in positions of power, and the one deemed correct by prescriptive grammarians. Teaching grammar: a set of language rules written to help speakers learn a second or foreign language or a different dialect of their language.
