intuition
UK /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/ US /ˌɪn.tuˈɪʃ.ən/
noun 2
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noun
1
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure. The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become standardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]
2
A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
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