Which concept denotes knowledge about language facts stored in memory?

• A. Declaritive Knowledge
• B. Procedural Knowledge
• C. Corpus Linguistics
• D. Counterbalance Hypothesis

Answer: (A)

Declarative knowledge is knowledge about language facts stored in memory. This type of knowledge is something you can recall and state, like knowing that the plural of “child” is “children,” or that English typically follows a subject–verb–object order. These are facts about language you can verbalize and retrieve from memory. In contrast, procedural knowledge is knowing how to do something and is shown through performance rather than verbal recall—for example, applying a grammar rule in speech or writing without necessarily being able to articulate the rule itself. Corpus linguistics, meanwhile, is a research method that analyzes large collections of texts to observe language use, not a type of memory-based knowledge. The Counterbalance Hypothesis is unrelated to how language facts are stored in memory.