Intro to linguistics terms

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Mental grammar

A shared system that allows us to understand each other’s ideas through language

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Mental Lexicon

The part of grammar that links recurring sounds or sequences in language with meaning; also known as the mental dictionary

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Arbitrariness

There is no inherent link between the word and what it represents

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Prescriptivist

Telling people how to speak, motivated socially and historically

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Descriptivist

Learning how people speak and why they speak the way they do