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Human Language Capacity

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Chomsky term

Part of Brain that allows you to speak

2
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language

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Instantiation of HLC ability. (English, French)etc.

3
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Principles and parameters/ minimalism

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Generative grammar

4
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Linguistic scient. Method

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Gather and observe data

Make generalizations

Develop hypothesis

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Rules/ grammar

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Rules are hypothesis

Groups of these that describe a language is grammar

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Prescriptive

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Describe how people should speak

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Descriptive

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Describes how people actually speak

8
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Anaphor

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Noun ending with -self

Must agree in gender with the noun it refers too

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Nominative

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Refers to the case form the pronouns take when in subject position

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Accusative

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Refers to the form they take when in object positions (John loves me)

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Grammaticality judgement task

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Asking a native speaker to read a sentence and ask whether it is well formed.

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Semantic ill-formedness

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When meaning of sentence is strange but the form is okay. 
#the tooth brush is pregnant 
Mark with #
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Syntactically ill-formed

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When a sentence is structurally wrong.
*toothbrush the is blue
Mark with *

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Garden path sentence

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Usually missing articles and this, that, these, those

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Performance

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Kinds of language that are actually produced and heard

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Competence

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Refers to what we know about our language.

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Universal Grammar

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“Language organ” in the brain