The process through which the mind works out the grammatical structure and meaning of the sentence.

1.  creole

Processing language to get the ‘rules’.

2.  minimalist program

A language created by speakers of two different languages for communicating with each other.

3.  parsing

The language faculty built in to the human mind.

4.  mental lexicon

Where speakers of a language store all the words they know.

5.  assimilationist  

Alternative pronunciations of phonemesthat don’t affect the meaning.

6.  prepositions

Words like to, by and with.

7.  L.A.D.

The current version of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar theory, which tries to reduce grammar to the minimum possible principles.

8.  pidgin

A new language created when children acquire their parents’ pidgin language as their first language.

9.  allophone

Teaching that expects people to give up their native languages and to become speakers of the majority language of the country.

10.  codebreaking