LIN 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Word Grammar, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Prescription

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 1300
• Professor: Kathleen Brannen

Document Summary

Went over the basis of the book, very general ideas. File 1. 2 what you know when you know a language. No matter how proficient one is with a language, no one can be an expert on it, not even. Following grammar rules, form a sentence/how to pronounce words. This is all ideal, but the receiver does not always receive the correct message (misinterpretation) A more detailed exchange of language would be: Your lexicon is a collection of all the words that you know, how to use them, what they refer to and words that can be interchanged. The words grammar and rules have different meanings to linguists. grammar is a language system, whereas a rule is just a statement of a pattern in language. File 1. 3 other (non-essential) aspects of knowing a language. Writing is secondary to speech and is not necessary for knowing a language. Although writing and speaking are both forms of communication, speech is primarily.