Lec 1

• Syntax: The study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.
• Cognitive science is a cover term for a group of disciplines that all have the same goal.
• Competence what you know about your language.
• Performance language that is actually produced and heard
• Recursion refers to the fact that you can produce and understand sentences you have never heard before.
• Observationally adequate grammar only accounts for the data in corpus.
• A group of hypotheses that describe a language’s syntax is called a grammar.
• The focus of syntax is the internal Language not external language
• Explanatory adequate grammar refers to the theory that accounts for corpora native speakers judgments and how children acquire their languag
• Generative grammar refers to a theory of linguistics in which grammar is viewed as a cognitive faculty
• Anaphor: a word that ends in self or selves.
• Antecedent the noun an anaphor refers to.
• Constituent refers to a group of words that function together as a unit