Subject | English | Russian |
gen. | native speaker's intuition | чувство языка (A native speaker's intuition is his/her ability to distinguish grammatical utterances from ungrammatical ones, to classify sentences as acceptable or unacceptable, or to interpret and explain ambiguous utterances. |
gen. | speaker's intuition | чувство языка (This is a fancy way of saying "your natural understanding of what is acceptable in English." Perfect English Grammar by Grant Barrett. We knew that our approach should be corpus-based as previous studies have shown that a speaker's intuition is usually an unreliable guide to patterns of collocation and that intuition is an even poorer guide to semantic prosody. Semantic Prosody: A Critical Evaluation By Dominic Stewart Alexander Demidov) |