ENPHOMORPH L2

the surface manifestation of spoken language

the abstract system organizing the surface sounds and gestures

• - 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 first used the term in relation to the theoretical linguistics of grammar that he developed in the late 1950s.

• - Complete description in a language.

What type of grammar are linguists who focus on generative grammar not interested in?

• Rules of a language governing the sounds, words, sentences, and the other elements, as well as their combination and interpretation.

• 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.

-the idealized unconscious knowledge a speaker has of the organization of his or her language

-the actual use of language