PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Phrase Structure Rules, Transformational Grammar, Active And Passive Transformation
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Diacritical marks: symbols above letters that indicate their correct pronunciation in a particular word. Articulation: the production of a language"s sounds. Language: open-ended verbal communication that consists of all possible sentences: a sentence is a grammatical utterance and is recognized as such by a native speaker of the language. He then rejected the possibility that a finite state grammar all the utterance (independent) sentences in a language. It"s impossible to construct a finite state grammar that will generate all and only the grammatical utterances of a natural language: finite state grammars are too simple to underlie the complexity of natural languages. One of the problems with finite state grammars is that they operate at: they generate sentences by a process that moves only from left only one level right, alternative approach (chomsky): Johnson was admired by boswell: kernel sentences: easier to understand and remember b/c they require fewer transformations.
