PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Noam Chomsky, Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Noun Phrase

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Steven Barnes, Grace Truong

Document Summary

Uses signals that are combined based on rules of grammar. Set of rules that specifies how signals can be combined to produce meaningful msgs. Smallest units of sound recog as speech. When changing b to p or vice versa in a word, it change the meaning. They are also produced in diff ways. Applying other language"s phonemes to a new language. Indicate how phonemes can be combined to produce speech sounds. Smallest unit that conveys meaning (ie. words, but doesn"t need to be full words. Indicate how morphemes can be combined to form words. Can stand alone, refer to things and events (cat, take) Can stand alone, serve grammatical functions (and, but) or indicate time (when) Can be added to content morphemes to create words (prefix or suffix) Adding -s to noun to make it plural, adding re to verb to indicate something is done again. Indicate how words can be combined to form phrases and sentence.