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What kind of Building Blocks & Rules? ¡ Words and parts of words are another kind of building block; these are found in the lexicon of the language, or your mental dictionary brown, cow, speak, fast, nefarious, prevaricate, bruxism -ly, -ish, -ness What does bruxism mean? A. excessive ear wax B...

What kind of Building Blocks & Rules? ¡ Words and parts of words are another kind of building block; these are found in the lexicon of the language, or your mental dictionary brown, cow, speak, fast, nefarious, prevaricate, bruxism -ly, -ish, -ness What does bruxism mean? A. excessive ear wax B. excessive teeth grinding C. excessive desire to sleep What kind of Building Blocks & Rules? — Your knowledge of language lets you build more complex words: Morphology is the study of rules for combining parts of words She talks / is talking / talked ¡ syntax-lover, grammar-hater ¡ And you understand that there are constraints on how a word can be built (note that the * indicates ungrammaticality): *differiatent Ö differentiate What kind of Building Blocks & Rules? — How to build good PHRASES and SENTENCES: Syntax is the study of rules for building even larger expressions ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ a white dog *a dog white John is happy. *John happy is. What kind of Building Blocks & Rules? — How to build good PHRASES and SENTENCES: Syntax Spanish: un perro blanco a dog white