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What is linguistics?
It is the scientific study of human natural language
A linguist is a person who knows at least two different languages.
False
Chomsky proposed there models to the study of language. True or false? Which are those?
True: Competence, performance and language acquisition.
What is the model of competence about?
What speakers know, when they know a language.
What is the model of performance about?
It is about how the linguistic competence is used.
What is the model of language acquisition about?
It is about how our competence and performance change.
Morphology is concerned with the structure of phrases and sentences
False
Syntax is concerned with how words are structured.
false
What is descriptive grammar?
It is in charge of analyzing how a language or languages are used. It "describes".
What is prescriptive grammar?
It "prescribes" how a language should be used.
Is it correct to say that a particular language is "primitive"
Nope. All languages have a level of complexity.
