ENG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Iconicity, Arbitrariness, Inferiority Complex
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The ability to produce and understand an infinite number of (novel) sentences. The ability to map meaning onto form. The ability to determine what is ungrammatical, i. e. possible in a given language. An innate potential to speak a language. An abstract, unconscious knowledge of underlying rules of language. Concrete realization of our language potential in speech. Putting our abstract knowledge of how our language works to actual use in speech production and comprehension. Tacit ling. knowledge in the mind, what we know when we know a lang. A linguistic system that comprises the elements and rules that make up language. Native speaker intuitions, grammaticality judgment whether a certain linguistic form or usage is (im)possible in a given language. Generalizations & rules that characterize what people say, how english works, the rules" that native speakers tacitly know. Characterizing all and only what speakers actually do.
