LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mental Model, Semantic Change, Spring Break
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Lecture 6: understanding language- sentences & discourse- chapter 7: understanding. What we do to determine what sentences mean. Assigning words in a sentence to the correct linguistic categories. Working out the syntactic structure of a sentence. When parsing a sentence, we break it down into its constituents. Work out how they are related to each other. Mechanism responsible for parsing the human sentence processing mechanism- hspm for short. Extracts the meaning of an utterance & we then have to integrate that meaning into a representation that makes sense w/ what we already know. Parse diagram fo(cid:396) (cid:862)the old (cid:373)a(cid:374) ju(cid:373)ped (cid:395)ui(cid:272)kl(cid:455) i(cid:374)to the (cid:271)oat(cid:863) When listening to the sentence being spoken: (cid:862)the(cid:863)- not much difficulty understanding (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s happe(cid:374)i(cid:374)g. (cid:862)the old(cid:863)- not much difficulty understanding (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s happening. (cid:862)the old (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863)- (cid:374)ot (cid:373)u(cid:272)h diffi(cid:272)ult(cid:455) u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s happe(cid:374)i(cid:374)g. You have to take a second to understand what is being said.
