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1. system that has a potential existence in each brain, or, specifically, in the brains of

a group of individuals. For language is not complete in any speaker; it exists

perfectly only within a collectivity.’

Chomsky’s linguistics is considered a revolution against the behavioral view of language.

For Chomsky, actual language use, or performance, is only the tip of the iceberg of
linguistic competence, or the underlying mental processes which we carry out in our

production of language. Each one of us has a mental repository of the rules by which our
language or dialect organizes linguistic elements into well-formed strings; that is, each

one of us holds in our heads syntactic expertise in terms of a set of finite rules which

allows us to generate an infinite number of sentences, many of which we have never heard
before. Syntactic theories attempt to make transparent that mental knowledge by

modeling it, and in many cases by showing how language might be generated by a
computer if programmed to have the same kind of rule-based knowledge.

Victor Segura

Phrase 4 Noam Chomsky

I understand that communication flows naturally in a group that knows their language,
regardless of grammatical aspects that may be limiting. It is a purely communicational answer

and that people in this aspect understand each other. For example, when two people speak
and one of them uses incorrect phrases or constructions but that is fully understood by the
listener, in this situation the grammar does not matter if not the message or communication.

Jhonnier Styven Yusti

Step 1

2. ‘It seems clear that we must regard linguistic competence – knowledge of a language – as
an abstract system underlying behavior, a system constituted by rules that interact to
determine the form and intrinsic meaning of a potentially infinite number of sentences

PHARSE 2 NOAN CHOMSKY

- In this sentence it is said that “knowledge of a language- as an abstract system.”
Seeing it as a series of patterns, it adds that “the intrinsic meaning of a number is
potentially an infinity of sentences.”

Introduction to the linguistics