UC知道语言学问题 英文
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4. Consider the following sentences:
a. I hate war.
b. You know that I hate war.
c. He knows that you know that I hate war.
A. Write another sentence that includes sentence ©.
B. What does this set of sentences reveal about the nature of language?
C. How is this characteristic of human language related to the difference between linguistic competence and performance? (Hint: review these concepts in chapter 1)
a. I hate war.
b. You know that I hate war.
c. He knows that you know that I hate war.
A. Write another sentence that includes sentence ©.
B. What does this set of sentences reveal about the nature of language?
C. How is this characteristic of human language related to the difference between linguistic competence and performance? (Hint: review these concepts in chapter 1)
a) A possible answer would be: We know that he knows that you know that I hate war.
b) These sentences show that there is no "longest" sentence in English; one can go on
indefinitely, constructing longer and longer sentences by appending
"He/she/they/John/etc. know(s) that" to the previously constructed sentence.
c) While it is true that in principle we could construct a sentence of indefinite length (a
fact about linguistic competence), in actual behavior there are lapses of memory and
mistakes, and we would eventually have to stop constructing a longer sentence in order to
eat and sleep. These are facts about linguistic performance.
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