Linguistics Syntax

2. The internal system of linguistic knowledge shared by all humans
3. The set of unconscious rules that speakers know about their language
6. The study of meaning in language
7. The process of transferring information and ideas between people
8. The ability to talk about things not present in space or time
12. The set of rules that describe how sentences and words work together
13. The rule system that governs the combination of words into phrases and sentences
14. The system of sounds in a language
15. The ability to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences

1. Words are connected to meanings by convention not by nature
4. The system of human communication that uses sounds or symbols to convey meaning
5. The meaningful units used to represent ideas in a language
9. Describes a property of language that humans are born with
10. The structure of words and how they are formed
11. The ability to create new expressions using existing linguistic elements