Jackendoff's First Fundamental Argument refers the notion that for any language learn intern rules are created which he calls a mental grammar. Depending on the environment an individual grows up in, the pattern of language acquired become intern to an individual. Unconsciously, the individual accumulates X number of words. Later, these words are then being processed in patterns and rules that form words and sentences that applied to the language learned. Furthermore, he argues that in a language it is not enough to only just learn the words but, you also need to know about the patterns of sentences possible with this word in the language. As a matter of fact, the reason why a word seems natural or unnatural is when a word is put in a sentence
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Mohawks is a polysynthetic language, in other words, it tends to express as much information in a single word in putting the maximum elements in a word. Mohawks speakers acquired multiples words unconsciously in their childhood. Later in school, they learn about grammatical structure without textbook but, with pictures and oral practice which creates a distinction between mental grammar and proper grammar. Linguists analyzed various words and observed that the Mohawks speakers follow a different pattern in the order of the words. Where the prefixes and suffixes depending on the way they are placed, they have a different meaning according to the morpheme(referring to gender ). However, if we change the order of the words it does not change the meaning. On the other hand, Mohawk is infinite, it can be complex and it can use recursion. All sentences have the same meaning even if the syntax is not in the same order, except for morpheme. In addition, Jackendoff first argument is proven with the fact that we can observe in Mohawk the emphasis is on the number of words that they can learn and later use to create new words. To conclude, there is no need to memorize every pattern in a sentence if they can mentally create a set of rules. Learning Mohawk is actually creating new words without changing the semantic of the
Mohawks is a polysynthetic language, in other words, it tends to express as much information in a single word in putting the maximum elements in a word. Mohawks speakers acquired multiples words unconsciously in their childhood. Later in school, they learn about grammatical structure without textbook but, with pictures and oral practice which creates a distinction between mental grammar and proper grammar. Linguists analyzed various words and observed that the Mohawks speakers follow a different pattern in the order of the words. Where the prefixes and suffixes depending on the way they are placed, they have a different meaning according to the morpheme(referring to gender ). However, if we change the order of the words it does not change the meaning. On the other hand, Mohawk is infinite, it can be complex and it can use recursion. All sentences have the same meaning even if the syntax is not in the same order, except for morpheme. In addition, Jackendoff first argument is proven with the fact that we can observe in Mohawk the emphasis is on the number of words that they can learn and later use to create new words. To conclude, there is no need to memorize every pattern in a sentence if they can mentally create a set of rules. Learning Mohawk is actually creating new words without changing the semantic of the