LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linguistic Competence, Vocal Tract, Vocal Folds
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Slide 14: we have unconscious knowledge of pattern and rules of our own language. The goal of linguistics is the identify those rules. Slide 15: metal grammar is in our heads shared by native speakers of a certain language. Model of this grammar is called descriptive grammar. Slide 16: if the linguist identifies a sentence as grammatical this means. The sentence conforms to the hypothesized rules of the mental grammar. : he might could wear a size 8. 5. Slide 18: but it is grammatical in southern us. Prescriptivist: you should not use two models together. Descriptivist: in this dialect you could use two model together. Get data and analyze that language to identify the system. Then build a model of the system of how speakers speak and understand their native language. Something is not a sentence if it doesn"t follow the form of a sentence.
