Syntax Mid Term

Question 1

Human Language Capacity

Answer 1

Chomsky term

Part of Brain that allows you to speak

Question 2

language

Answer 2

Instantiation of HLC ability. (English, French)etc.

Question 3

Principles and parameters/ minimalism

Answer 3

Generative grammar

Question 4

Linguistic scient. Method

Answer 4

Gather and observe data

Make generalizations

Develop hypothesis

Question 5

Rules/ grammar

Answer 5

Rules are hypothesis

Groups of these that describe a language is grammar

Question 6

Prescriptive

Answer 6

Describe how people should speak

Question 7

Descriptive

Answer 7

Describes how people actually speak

Question 8

Anaphor

Answer 8

Noun ending with -self

Must agree in gender with the noun it refers too

Question 9

Nominative

Answer 9

Refers to the case form the pronouns take when in subject position

Question 10

Accusative

Answer 10

Refers to the form they take when in object positions (John loves me)

Question 11

Grammaticality judgement task

Answer 11

Asking a native speaker to read a sentence and ask whether it is well formed.

Question 12

Semantic ill-formedness

Answer 12

When meaning of sentence is strange but the form is okay. 
#the tooth brush is pregnant 
Mark with #

Question 13

Syntactically ill-formed

Answer 13

When a sentence is structurally wrong.
*toothbrush the is blue
Mark with *

Question 14

Garden path sentence

Answer 14

Usually missing articles and this, that, these, those

Question 15

Performance

Answer 15

Kinds of language that are actually produced and heard

Question 16

Competence

Answer 16

Refers to what we know about our language.

Question 17

Universal Grammar

Answer 17

“Language organ” in the brain