1) Explain what is meant by a "natural language" and describe the following characteristics of all natural languages:
a) productivity and b) regularity.
2) Name and describe three types of rules that govern the production of acceptable utterances in a natural language. Give relevant examples.
3) Describe and give examples of two (2) of the following syntactic formalisms:
Phrase Structure
Pause Structure
Speech Errors
Transformations
4) Discuss what is meant by "a critical period for language acquisition."