PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Generative Grammar, Noam Chomsky, Psy
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According to chomsky: a sentence is generated by a set of rules. According to chomsky, the rules of grammar must satisfy what are called three criteria of. 3 criteria of adequacy (1) the rules must generate all the sentences of the language, which a native speaker would regard as well-formed. (2) generate no ill-formed sentences. (3) express the linguistically significant regularities of the structure of sentences. The wicked count must present the rich king to the kind queen. This is an example of a well-formed sentence: example of criterion #2. This is an example of an ill-formed sentence: to illustrate criterion #3, we need to look at a long example. Let"s invent a rule of grammar, and see if it passes criterion #3. Because it does not notice the following regularities: The words in buckets 1, 6, 10 are the same. The words in buckets 2, 7, 11 are the same.
