Input to Output: Chapter 3

This chapter was quite full, a good bridge from the two chapters preceding. This one went much deeper into the network and connection-making that our brains have mastered as speakers of language. There are so many rules about syntax within the English language native speakers don't know that they know. I can recall a teacher instructing us about a certain grammatical rule saying, "You'll just know it's wrong when you hear it." Obviously, that's not going to fly in a room with non-native speakers.

This chapter also goes into the differences and implications of accommodation and restructuring with regard to the development in the linguistic system. Accommodation and restructuring through instruction bring about change.