LING Terms 2026 Expert
Verifed Ace the Text
Experiment of nature - ANSWER ✔✔Nature can
accidentally/dramatically control culture, resulting in linguistic
sophistication
Corpus/corpora - ANSWER ✔✔Large collections of texts, speeches,
audio, videos
Only provides access to performance
If corpus contains error, unknown if speaker thought it was an error
, Judgments of ambiguity - ANSWER ✔✔Native speakers' intuitions
that expression has more than one meaning
"They fed her baby carrots" (a vague statement)
Mental grammar - ANSWER ✔✔Tacit linguistic competence; a set of
rules generation expressions of the speakers' language
Grammaticality - ANSWER ✔✔Expressions generated by mental
grammar
Grammaticality judgments - ANSWER ✔✔Native speakers' intuitions
about well-formedness of possible expressions in their language
How is tacit knowledge holistic? - ANSWER ✔✔It occurs all at once;
can't be broken down step by step
Conscious/explicit knowledge - ANSWER ✔✔Knowledge of a task
allowing individual to do task, slow it down, reflect on how to do it, and
explain it to someone else
What did Noam Chomsky believe? - ANSWER ✔✔Argued against
empiricism; there is an aspect of innate knowledge
Verifed Ace the Text
Experiment of nature - ANSWER ✔✔Nature can
accidentally/dramatically control culture, resulting in linguistic
sophistication
Corpus/corpora - ANSWER ✔✔Large collections of texts, speeches,
audio, videos
Only provides access to performance
If corpus contains error, unknown if speaker thought it was an error
, Judgments of ambiguity - ANSWER ✔✔Native speakers' intuitions
that expression has more than one meaning
"They fed her baby carrots" (a vague statement)
Mental grammar - ANSWER ✔✔Tacit linguistic competence; a set of
rules generation expressions of the speakers' language
Grammaticality - ANSWER ✔✔Expressions generated by mental
grammar
Grammaticality judgments - ANSWER ✔✔Native speakers' intuitions
about well-formedness of possible expressions in their language
How is tacit knowledge holistic? - ANSWER ✔✔It occurs all at once;
can't be broken down step by step
Conscious/explicit knowledge - ANSWER ✔✔Knowledge of a task
allowing individual to do task, slow it down, reflect on how to do it, and
explain it to someone else
What did Noam Chomsky believe? - ANSWER ✔✔Argued against
empiricism; there is an aspect of innate knowledge
