1. What do you know when you know a language?
Kuiper and Allan Chapter

2. Exercise
Make a sentence out of each of the following sets of words. What does this tell you about the order of words in English sentences?
sleeps, a, baby, new-born
in, house, live, green, the, a, people
the, kicked, boy, ball, a

3. Exercise
Which of the following could be an English word?
bnick
blick

4. Exercise
Whose dressing is under consideration in each of the following sentences?
Jill appealed to Mary to dress herself.
Jill appeared to Mary to dress herself.

5. Exercise
What is the question formed from each of the following statements?
John is eating his porridge.
John won’t eat his porridge.

6. Question
What kind of knowledge have you just displayed in answering the last few questions?

7. Linguistic units are constructed according to rules
rules of sound sequencing
rules of word sequencing
Speakers of the same language must know the same rules.
Rules are descriptive not prescriptive.
Native speaker knowledge of rules is unconscious.

8. Language is specifically human
Only we humans can answer questions like this.
We can do it because we have knowledge of our language(s).
No other species has this kind of knowledge.