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words, that you understand individually. So it seems that you understand
(1) because you understand the words that occur in (1) and you understand
something about how they are strung together. As we shall see, that is an
important fact, but for now it is only suggestive.
So far we have been talking about a human ability, to produce and under-
stand speech. But consider linguistic expressions themselves, as objects of
study in their own right.
(2) w gfjsdkhj jiobfglglf ud
(3) It's dangerous to splash gasoline around your living room.
(4) Good of off primly the a the the why.
(1)(4) are all strings of marks (or of noises, if uttered aloud). But they
differ dramatically from each other: (1) and (3) are meaningful sentences,
while (2) and (4) are gibberish. (4) differs from (2) in containing individually
meaningful English words, but the words are not linked together in such a
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