There are Five Levels of Linguistic Rules to be learned and applied to go from Deep Structure to Surface Structure.

• The five levels of rules are:

  • Phonologic Rules
  • Morphologic Rules
  • Syntactic Rules
  • Semantic Rules
  • Pragmatic Rules

• The first three sets of rules are typically discussed in the literature as the FORM of language.

• The fourth, Semantics, is referred to as the rules of CONTENT.

• And the fifth, Pragmatics, is described as the USE of language.

• This module will address the first three, or Language Form.

• Because language is discursive, I must list and discuss them in order, but they are learned by the child simultaneously.

• Ironically, the first I have chosen to discuss, Phonology, is often the last to be completely mastered by the child.

  NOTES: Here is an interesting site on grammar.

  NOTES: This is the site I used to pass the GRE.

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