LING 1000 Quiz: Ling quiz #1.docx
19 Oct 2014
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Linguistic competence what you know linguistic performance how you use this knowledge in actual speech we must organize our thoughts into strings of words may stammer, pause or produce slips of the tongue linguistic knowledge ( sounds, structures, meanings etc) is learned subconsciously our unconscious ability to speak and understand sentences reveals our knowledge of the rules of our language. Descriptive grammars sounds and sound patterns, basic units of meaning and rules combine them to form new sentences constitute the grammar of lang to know a lang you need to know the grammar grammar makes it possible to communicate through language descriptive grammar doesn"t tell you how you should speak describes your basic ling knowledge can use the word grammar 2 ways mental grammar in your brains description of this internalized grammar no language is superior to any other in linguistic sense from quiz.
