INA01 Final Exam Questions and Correct Answers

What is linguistics? Ans Study of all things related to language What is competence? Ans Your unconscious knowledge of what can and can't be said What is performance? Ans How you actually use your linguistic competence to produce and understand speech Define grammar Ans A complex system of rules that governs how speakers organize sounds into words and words into sentences What are the 5 parts to grammar? Ans 1. Phonetics 2. Morphology 3. Phonology 4.Syntax 5. Grammar What are the two approaches to grammar? Ans Prescriptive and Descriptive Define prescriptive grammar Ans Its the rules of language Define descriptive grammar Ans It studies and characterizes actual language of specific groups - has nothing to do with correctness Define syntax Ans Sentence structur