PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cookie Monster, Part Of Speech, Adpositional Phrase
2 Mar 2016
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Stringing together words and word parts (morphology) into sentences. Can"t memorize each individual sentence it"s a system of rules. Productivity: you can have infinite combinations of grammar (you can re-combine things to make new sentences) Grammar is how we understand and produce these combinations both at the word and sentence level (morphosyntax). Syntax is how you put the words together; word order o: morphology refers to the words themselves, and word parts (recall: cat has 1 morpheme, cats has 2 morphemes, mlu: mean length of utterances. Descriptive (how people use the language, e. g. diff. dialects speak differently) and prescriptive (rules of a language, generally) Open class: nouns, verbs, adjectives, exclamations (non-grammatical words) Closed class: grammatical words like determiners (in, on, a, the, because) Morphology: the study of how the smallest meaningful units (not sounds) of language (morphemes) are combined. Grammar focuses the internal structure of words. o o o o o o o o o o o o o.
