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Why linguistics

Why linguistics?

What no other species has

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Linguistic competence

A first approximation

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A learnability space

What is built where

The totality

Hola, Gallileo

One of the two most complex systems known to science

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Processes

In competent and incompetent speech

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Possible, difficult and impossible words

And realistic goals

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Teaching, learning, growing words

One word missing, not just in English

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Something unique to humans

Putting different sorts of words and parts of words together – 'compositionality'

What was the last word

Your last word

Packaging the information

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Change and variation

Speech and language do not stand still

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Discourse and conversation

And the faculty of language

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Two or three necessities

Without which there could not be speech and language

Why

What, why

Questions with answers pulling in different directions

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Contending perspectives

Some very strongly opposed to one another

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