Noam Chomsky

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the father of modern linguistics

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Noam Chomsky

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LAD

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Language Acquisition Device

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Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory was published in

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1975

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Order of linguistics

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competence- acquisition- performance

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B.F. Skinner’s theory that was published in 1957

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Verbal Theory

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Langue and Parole are analogous to Chomsky’s-

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competence and performance; he describes ‘competence’ as an idealized capacity that is located as a psychological or mental property or function and ‘performance’ as the production of actual utterances.

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the process that re-order the sequence of segments

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metathesis

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Substantive universals

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are grammatical categories like nouns or verbs and grammatical functions such as subject or object – you might know these as the basic building blocks of grammar.

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Formal universals

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are then the rules that we use to form meaningful syllables, phrases, sentences. For example, phrase structure rules determine how phrases and sentences can be build up from words. Derivational rules guide the reorganization of syntactic structures such as the transformation from a statement into a question.

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polysemy

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the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase.

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Lexeme

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A lexeme is the smallest or minimal unit of lexicon in a language that bears some “meaning”.
For example, the lexeme PLAY can take up many forms like play, playing, plays, and played.

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The correct order for sentence

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Phonology- morphology- syntax- semantics

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The minimalist program

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1995

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sense and reference concept given by

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Gottlob Frege
The reference (or "referent"; Bedeutung) of a proper name is the object it means or indicates (bedeuten), whereas its sense (Sinn) is what the name expresses. The reference of a sentence is its truth value, whereas its sense is the thought that it expresses

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Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions),

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referential
poetic
emotive
conative
phatic
metalingual

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Generative Grammar

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Generative grammar is a theory of grammar, first developed by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s, that is based on the idea that all humans have an innate language capacity

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English syntax

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Andrew Redfort

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An Introduction to theoretical linguistics

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John Lyons

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Exploring Semantic Structures

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Nide E

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Aspects of the theory of syntax

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Noam Chomsky

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Phatic Communion

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B. malinowski

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Phonogram

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A phonogram is a letter or combination of letters that represent a sound. For example: CK is a phonogram that says /k/ as in clock. … OY is a phonogram that says /oi/ as in boy.

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Morphemes

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The smallest unit of meaning in the language

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Phoneme

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a phoneme /ˈfoʊniːm/ is a unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another in a particular language.

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Diglossia

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A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are used under different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers. The term is usually applied to languages with distinct “high” and “low” (colloquial) varieties, such as Arabic.

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the concept the identifies problem emerging from the translation

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blind spot