Sentence examples for speakers knowledge from inspiring English sources

And Chomsky emphasizes that the neologism also implies a kind of realism about speakers' knowledge of language.

For example, what is the content of speakers' knowledge of language?[3] What sorts of facts about language are represented in speakers' heads?

On the assumption that speakers generally conform to the K-norm, which would help explain why the norm continues to hold, hearers will correspondingly ascribe to speakers knowledge that their assertions holds.

But the interpretations that we considered so far are world states that do not encode different amounts of speaker knowledge.

Åqvist (1965) connects questions with speaker knowledge rather than hearer knowledge by proposing that to ask a question is to command the hearer to cause the speaker to know the question's answer.

As a first approximation, a sentence has an implicature when speakers conventionally use sentences of that form with the corresponding implicature.[6] Whereas knowledge of what a speaker implicates is essential to fully understand the speaker, knowledge of what sentences implicate is a critical component of our knowledge of a language.

3. Assuming, of couse, that speakers have knowledge about their language — again, see Devitt 2006 for arguments that speakers do not have knowledge of grammar, and that whatever knowledge they do have about language plays no role in language production or comprehension.

Word intuition is speakers' intuitive knowledge on wordhood.

Whilst listening to the performances, they also often focused on the speakers' technical knowledge.

One explanation is certainly the Chomskyan one that they are consequences of speakers' innate knowledge of UG.

Word intuition is speakers' intuitive knowledge of what a word is and can be defined individually or collectively.