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15 Cards in this Set
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Linguistics |
The field that is concerned with characterization of the nature of language and to discover a set of rules that captures the structural regularities in a language. |
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Grammar |
The set of rules that account for productivity and regularity of natural language, accepting utterances and rejecting all unacceptable. Three types of rules, syntax, semantics and phonology. |
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Syntax |
Type of grammar rule concerned with word order and inflection. |
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Semantics |
Type of grammar rule concerned with the meaning of the sentences. |
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Phonology |
Type of grammar rule concerned with pronunciation. |
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Linguistic intuitions |
The judgements made about whether sentences are ill-formed and why, paraphrasing, lexical and structural ambiguity. |
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Linguistic competence |
A person's abstract knowledge of the language. |
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Linguistic performance |
The application of abstract knowledge of a language in speaking and listening. |
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Phrase structure |
Linguistic heirarchial structure of a sentence . |
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Pause structure in speech |
Is the breaking up of speech into units with pauses, which is usually after each meaningful unit of speech such as after noun phrase. |
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Speech errors |
Phoneme exchange, inside the boundaries of a phrase. Word errors, beyond bondaries of a phrase. Drifferent stages of planning and insertion. |
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Modularity position |
Proposing that language in processed and acquired by different processes than other cognition. WS, FOXP2. |
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Language universals |
Chomsky: innate constraints on natural language structure, such as the constraint on transformations. |
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Natural languages |
A language which is based on language universals withiout violating them, languages that humans can learn. |
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Parameter setting |
A theory of language acquisition proposing that language can be described in terms of settings (100) parameters such as pro-drop parameter, learning a language involves among other things learning the settings on these parameters. |
