Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Surface Roughness, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Parsing

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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Communicative language is essentially a thought transmission" system. When the surface structure leads to the wrong deep structure are referred to as garden path sentences. Sentence parsing forming an idea of what is to come as your read a sentence. We generate inferences to aid our understanding and these can also direct our thinking. A study by loftus showed that after participants were shown a video of an accident, the wording and language that were included in the questioning that followed helped to paint the picture of what the participants remembered. A good analogy related concepts that may have similar deep structure even though they may have different surface structure meanings. Kempton conducted a study that investigated real world consequences of a metaphor period: argued that there are broadly defined metaphors or folk theories for how everyday objects work like thermostats, feedback theory, valve theory.