LING202 Study Guide - Fall 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Verb, Noun Phrase, Noun
14 Feb 2019
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Can be tested against more data or proven wrong. If it doesn"t give us something new to work with it isn"t helpful. We are going to encode our hypotheses about language as rules. What is the rule for making the plural of nouns in english. Add an s to the end of the noun. Rules statements that prescribe how people are supposed to speak. Our hypotheses about language are descriptive rules. Meant to model the speaker"s mental representation of language. Provide explanations and understanding to the observed patterns. This is a wug, now there are two. Two people mutually having an action onto the other. Bad- he likes each other, i love each other, each other likes. One person is not sufficient for the use of each other. Find 3 sentences, which all contain each other is there any sentences that are ambiguous. What does each other refer to in a sentence. It needs a pronoun to speak about.
