knowledge of a language

Question 1

two types of knowledge of a language

Answer 1

grammatical knowledge, pragmatic knowledge

Question 2

components of grammatical knowledge

Answer 2

phonetic (speech sounds and sound system)
semantic knowledge (meaning system)
morphological knowledge (structure and formation of complex words)
syntactic knowledge (structure and formation of phrases and sentences)

Question 3

phonetics definition + three sub-areas

Answer 3

study of separate speech sounds

articulatory - how speech sounds are physically produced

auditory - how humans perceive and process speech sounds

acoustic - physical properties of speech sounds

Question 4

knowledge of the permissible sound

Answer 4

knowledge of sound combinations and processes eg assimilation, nasalisation, knowledge of stress intonation tone patterns

Question 5

systematic gap

Answer 5

sound sequence that is phonetically or phonologically impossible in a language

Question 6

accidental gap

Answer 6

a sound sequence that is possible in a language but does not exist in its vocabulary