Question

Which of the following is NOT an example of how we use linguistic performance to understand what is in a speaker's linguistic competence?

a) A speaker judges the sentence "anxiously cook feelings tiny large" to be ungrammatical but "tiny large feelings cook anxiously" to be grammatical
b) Assuming that a speaker doesn't understand rules of English grammar when they accidentally say "*I'm a lot more better" when they meant to say "I'm a lot better"
c) Observing a speaker's allophones to understand the phonemes of their language
d) A speaker rejected the made-up name *fnorpk for their puppy, preferring snorp instead
e) It's actually the reverse. We study linguistic competence to understand a speaker's linguistic performance

Answer 1

a) A speaker judges the sentence "anxiously cook feelings tiny large" to be ungrammatical but "tiny large feelings cook anxiously" to be grammatical