Lesson 2

• Phonetics - deals with speech sounds themeselves.
• Phonology - deals with how these speech sounds are organized into systems for each individual language.
• Phonetics - the surface manifestation of spoken language.
• Phonology - the abstract system organizing the surface sounds and gestures.
• Generative Grammar - is a linguistic theory that regards grammar as a system of rules that generates exactly those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language.
• Noam Chomsky- he was the first who used the term "Generative grammar" in the late 1950s.
• Grammar - The study of the structure of language, including the rules that govern the use of words and phrases.
• Grammar - rules of language governing the sounds, words, sentences, and other elements, and as well as combination and interpretation.
• Generative - used to describe linguistic theories or models which are based on the idea that a single set of rules can explain how all the possible sentences of a language are formed.
• Competence - the idealized unconscious knowledge of speakers has of the organization of his or her language.
• Performance - the actual use of language.
• Bottom-Up Approach to Linguistic Analysis:

  A) Pragmatics

  B) Semantics

  C) Syntax

  D) Mophology

  E) Phonology

  F) Phonetics

  G) largest

  H) smallest