AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ is the system of RULES of a language .
A
Phoneme
B
Grammar
C
Syntax
D
Morpheme
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -grammar, rules of a language governing the sounds, words, sentences, and other elements, as well as their combination and interpretation. The word grammar also denotes the study of these abstract features or a book presenting these rules.

Detailed explanation-2: -The rules which govern how elements of language are put together are known as the grammar of the language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Syntax is the arrangement of words within a sentence structure. A subset of grammar, syntax is a set of rules that describes the word order and structure of a sentence within a natural language. Linguists use syntactic rules to analyze a given language.

Detailed explanation-4: -Grammar is the system of a language. People sometimes describe grammar as the “rules” of a language; but in fact no language has rules*. If we use the word “rules", we suggest that somebody created the rules first and then spoke the language, like a new game.

Detailed explanation-5: -The four systems of language are grammar, vocabulary, phonology and discourse.

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