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Normal adults can and do reflect upon their own (and other people’s) linguistic behavior. Although we do not wish to belabor this point, it is as well to distinguish from the outset between two types of “awareness” that must be explicated in any account of such metalinguistic abilities. At risk of seeming contradiction, we shall call the first type tacit awareness,and the second explicit formulation. In order to illustrate the distinction consider the following “sentence”:
The birds is coming.
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Marshall, J.C., Morton, J. (1978). On the Mechanics of Emma. In: Sinclair, A., Jarvella, R.J., Levelt, W.J.M. (eds) The Child’s Conception of Language. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67155-5_12
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