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What's Linguistics?

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