PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Phrase Structure Rules, Language Acquisition Device
21 Mar 2013
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The relationships that are occurring simultaneously: loud and music. This sentence has a subject (music) followed by the predicate (loud). The person that hears the sentence the music is loud reconstructs the speaker"s experience by reversing the process used to generate the sentence. Language: open-ended verbal communication that consists of all possible sentences. Speech: those sentences that are actually spoken; only a small subset of language. Finite state grammar only operates at one level; the process only moves from left to right: chomsky proposed a top-down process that uses phrase structure rules & grammatical transformations. Phrase structure rules: rules describing the way in which symbols can be rewritten as other symbols. Example: sentence (s) noun phrase (np) + verb phrase (vp, np article (art) + noun (n, vp verb (v) + np. These rules allow man different sentences to be derived and this can be represented using a tree diagram.
