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Given a set of sentences, our knowledge of English leads us to a judgment about
which sentences follow the normal patterns of our language and which do not; we
can determine when a sentence has more than one meaning or when several
sentences all have the same meaning. These and many other facts about language
require an explanation. What is it that speakers of a language know? What kind of
knowledge underlies our daily use of language? When we hear speech, all that
really reaches our ears is noise; what do we know that enables us to interpret this
noise as the expression of meaning? Such questions form the basis of the linguist’s
investigation of human language.

1. The number of possible sentences in the language is .
2. When we speak, we are not of the movement of our organs that are
involved in the of sounds.
3. A native speaker of English can tell whether a given sentence follow the normal
of English or not.
4. When we hear speech, all that we really hear is .
5. Knowing a language is knowing how to relate the noise one hears with .