PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Written Language, Phrase Structure Rules, Psy
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Note: you are only responsible for textbook pgs. Define the different levels used to study language. Explain what a phoneme is and what characteristics make phonemes special. Describe the effects of context on lexical access. Describe swinney"s famous study of the timing of context on lexical access. Briefly describe chomsky"s phrase structure grammar and list the. Differentiate between surface structure and deep structure and briefly describe transformational grammar. Explain the syntax-first approach to parsing and list some evidence to support and refute it. Define discourse and list the 3 levels of discourse processing. Explain the inferences that are used to achieve local and global. Briefly describe the event-indexing model and provide evidence to coherence support it. Language, very broadly, is a set of rules used to communicate main point is to communicate, there"s some set of rules we use to communicate.
