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Caus Posted 19 years ago
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Linguistics help please!

0Taking an intro to linguistics class and stumbling on what should be 2 relatively easy questions, any help would be greatly appreciated.02br
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001. Suppose a fully competent native speaker of English writes "I will be you're biology tutor." Which hypothesis is most likely to accurately characterize this situation.02br
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00a. the speaker has made a spelling mistake, writing you're where convention dictates that your is correct.02br
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00b. the speaker has made a grammatical mistake, intending to use the contracted form of you are and thereby producing something with the same status as "I will be you are biology teacher."02br
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00c. The speaker has made both a spelling mistake and a grammatical mistake02br
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00Classify the following sentences as grammatical or ungrammatical in English, using notational conventions02br
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001. The dog raced past the houes stumbled02br
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002. Tami has like twelve bicycles02br
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003. I heard that Sue the movie disliked02br
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004. The A train had an existential crisis.0-
  

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01cite10Caus12cite10Taking an intro to linguistics class and stumbling on what should be 2 relatively easy questions, any help would be greatly appreciated.12br
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00 We do have a separate forum for linguistics questions, but we'll take your question here for now.02br
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00 It's not even thinkable that a competent native speaker would produce 01i00I will be you are biology teacher02i00, so I think that alone gives you the answer to the first one!02br
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10Taking an intro to linguistics class and stumbling on what should be 2 relatively easy questions, any help would be greatly appreciated.12br
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0 Thanks for the help, that does make much more sense.02br
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00However on problem #2 question 1 "The dog raced pas the houses stumbled" confused me because in the notes we received it describes interfering factors and processing load. It stated "some sentences are grammatical but hard, even impossible to understand." and one of the examples was "The horse raced past the
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00"The horse raced past the barn fell."12blockquote
10Yes, this is the classic example seen in all linguistics classes. Both this and the dog-variant of it are fine grammatically.02br
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00 The dog ( the one which was made to go fast past the house) stumbled.02br
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01cite10Caus12cite10 Thanks for the help, that does make much more sense.12br
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10However on problem #2 question 1 11b11font10"The dog raced pas the houses stumbled"12font12b10 confused me because in the notes we received it describes interfering factors a
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0 No. 01i00The dog that raced past the house02i00 is not the same concept as 01i00the dog that 01b00was02b00 raced past the house02i00, Pioussoul! Read my previous posts again about the meaning of 01i00race02i00in this sentence. 05002br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10No. 11i10The dog that raced past the house12i10 is not the same concept as 11i10the dog that 11b10was12b10 raced past the house12i10, Pioussoul! Read my previous posts again about the meaning of 11i10race12i10in this sent
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0Again thanks for the help but i'm still having difficulty with what makes a sentence gramatical or ungrammatical. Is there a set of rules or general assumptions that can be made to help distinguish what is grammatical and ungrammatical? I'm still struggling with "The dog raced past the house fell." What makes this grammatical as opposed to "I heard that Sue the movie disliked." I dont quite
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