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Summary

Language

As...

• Language as a structure
• Language as a mental faculty
• Language as a function

Structuralism

Generativism

Functionalism

B. C 1916Linguistic as a part of phylosophy.

Halliday 1970 Language comes from experience. Social approach to language acquisition

Saussure 1916 Linguistic as a science. - How language is organized into structures.

Chomsky 1956 Language is innate-Biological approach to language acquisition.

Mental faculty

Chomsky argued that humans are born with a language acquisition device wich is a set of mental structures that allow humans to subconsciously develop rules for how language works. Later on, individuals develop an internal grammar, which consists of rules that facilitate their understanding and production of one or more languages. This theory later became known as Universal Grammar.

• People acquire their first language naturally because the brain is wired for language.
• He sees language as a mental faculty unique to humans.

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Functional resource

The study of language structure involves identifying the way words are organized into these larger units. For example, in some languages sentences begin with a subject followed by a verb and an object. In other languages, the verb comes at the end.In some languages, the order of the words is quite fixed while in other languages, endings on the words indicate whether they are subjects, objects, and so on, making the order of the words more flexible

Language as a structure

Syntax:

Is the study of how words in a language are combined to create larger units like phrases, clauses and sentences. Linguistics researchers focus on investigating how these parts of a sentence are structured in different languages, emphasizing the word order that creates these larger units.

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