LINA01H3 Lecture 1: LINA01 Lecture 1
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It is clear that when ppl use human language, they follow certain principles (rules: a sentence like, the man has seen the dog. *b) seen man the has dog the is correct in english, but is not (the asterisk placed in front of a sentence signals that it is not a correct, or grammatical one. We will discuss more about grammatically in the syntax lectures: the task of linguistic research is to understand what these principles are and how they are instantiated in language or individual languages. When analyzing language, we need to distinguish between competence, defined as a speaker"s (unconscious) knowledge of what can and can"t be said in their language, and. Performance (how the speaker actually uses his/her linguistic competence to produce and understand speech). Which of these are possible english words? mbood frall coofp sproke flube bsarn. Which is the past form of the following verbs? walk beg state. Jason"s mother left himself w/ nothing to eat.
