LINA01H3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Linguistic Prescription, Complementary Distribution, Phoneme
Document Summary
Extra practice exercises for the midterm: answers: grammar. Now that we have been doing linguistics for over a month, the different concepts of. Grammar should make more sense than they did at the beginning. Consider the data below: (in response to the claim that a news commentator predicted a particular incumbent would keep his senate seat in the upcoming elections) Speaker b: he doesn"t know anything: what is wrong with the following assertions about the data, speaker a is using descriptive grammar and speaker b is using prescriptive grammar, descriptive and prescriptive grammars are not something you use. It"s more accurate to say speaker b"s utterance happens to be considered correct in prescriptive grammar. grammar: speaker a is using mental grammar and speaker b is using prescriptive, both speakers are using their mental grammars. Speaker a"s utterance is grammatical in his mental grammar, speaker b"s utterance is grammatical in his mental grammar: prescriptive grammar is not something you use.
