LINA01H3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Linguistic Competence, Puffy Amiyumi, Vvvv
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Learning goals: figure out what productivity means and what it entails, differentiate competence vs. performance, explain why we need the phonetic alphabet, be familiar with ipa for consonants. The following examples show rules that are the same in other languages (universal) Homer thanks that he is a great cook (correct) He thinks that homer is a great cook (incorrect) Homer cree que l es un gran cocinero (correct) L cree que homer es un gran cocinero (incorrect) While he was reading the book, homer ate a donut (correct) He ate a donut while homer was reading the book (incorrect) Mientra l leia un libro, homer comfia un donut (correct) L comia una manzana mientras homer leia un libro (incorrect) The underlying patterns (rules) of language are not obvious. We have unconscious knowledge of the patterns and rules of our own language. Mental grammar is in our (individual) heads shared by speakers of a language (with some variation) = linguistic competence.
