LINA01H3 Midterm: Linguistics Review Sheet
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To understand the nature of human mind: (mental) grammar; evidence for rules in mental grammar. *in individuals" heads- shared by speakers of a language. *a model of this grammar is called descriptive grammar. Native speakers have an inter rule about how to pronounce different s at the end of a plural noun: productivity (sometimes called creativity ) *ability to create infinitely long sentence. (but still follow the rule: prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar/rules. Rule: attempt to regulate how people write and talk. *assume there is an ideal version of language. Grammar: ways of speaking that are not quite natural to ones, might be bugged. *this does not tell people how they should speak. Grammar: =mental grammar: grammatical/ungrammatical: when we, as linguists, say that x is ungrammatical in language/dialect y, we mean that a native speaker of y would not say x (except perhaps as a performance error)
