LING 100 Sep 16th, 2021 Class 3 lecture Review of Intro: Linguistics is the scientific study of language, empirical field of study. Data based on speaker utterances, intuitions about utterance acceptability. Concerned with testable. If it's falsified, it's not testable Properties of natural languages: fundamentally creative, rule governed, all languages are equal in different ways, variable, languages change over time. Linguistic competence: it is subconscious cannot access it directly, speakers use linguistic competence to produce and interpret sentences, not the same as communicative competence, and communicative competence includes social competence tteverything we know as speakers of the community) as well as linguistic. In use of language, we behave to the shared values and beliefs of the speech community. Words and Word structure: