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Mental grammar

A set of rules that language users agree and rely on to use it effectively (morphology, phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics)

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Mental lexicon

Mental dictionary of words, storing sound, meaning, and grammar

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Descriptive grammar

Grammar that explains why speakers speak the way they do and learning how people speak

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Prescriptive grammar

Trying to dictate how others speak, motivated historically and socially

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Productivity

Creating infinitely new sentences from a finite set of words and structures

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Arbitrariness

there is no incoherent connection between the form and meaning of languageje