Carnie Chapter 1

Question 0

Generative Grammar

Answer 0

Noam Chomsky

Sentences are generated by a subconscious set of procedures part of our cognitive abilities

Question 1

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Answer 1

Language constrains what abstract things we can think about

Question 2

Anaphor

Answer 2

Noun ending with -self

Himself
Herself
Themselves

Question 3

Corpora

Answer 3

Pre-existing data

Question 4

Competence

Answer 4

What we know about the language

Question 5

Performance

Answer 5

Language that is actually produced and heard

Question 6

Universal grammar

Answer 6

Language as an instinct - human facility for language in the brain

Question 7

Logical Problem with language acquisition.

Answer 7

Productive systems are unlearn able because you never have enough input to be sure you have all the relevant facts

Question 8

Prescriptive grammar

Answer 8

Grammar rules taught by language experts - how to write and talk

Question 9

Descriptive grammar

Answer 9

Describes how people actually use language