PS366 Lecture 1: PS366 Lecture notes Sept-Nov
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Do not end sentences with prepositions : descriptive grammar: systematic rules that determine how people speak, examples of descriptive rules of english: Each clause can have only one main verb. : *my grammar teachers liked gave rules, *liked grammar teacher"s rules. I like him vs: *me like him, *i like he, recursion in language. September 14, 2017- chapter 1 continued, chapter 2. My own answer has been: yes "thinking" is largely s ub-vocal talking. If co: eliminating speech should eliminate thought: curare experiment (smith et al. Christopher : not capable of looking after himself, but learned 13 foreign languages. If language= speech this wouldn"t be possible: linguistic determinism, benjamin whorf. The language we speak determines the way we perceive the world and the way we categorize concepts . My piano plays the friend : reflects clause-level planning: initially lay out a frame with empty slots that are filled with words.
