PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Bootstrapping (Linguistics), Generative Grammar
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It involves breaking downthe speech stream into its component parts (words andwithin wordsphonemes) and figuring out the system for productively combining these component parts. A morpheme that cannot stand alone, but rather is attached to a word stem (such as. Ed to indicate past tense; -s to indicate plural). Aword from categories such as determiners (e. g. , a, the), auxiliaries (e. g. , can, would), and prepositions (e. g. , on, over). See also functional categories; open-class word. combinatorial speech. Speech in which words are combined in utterances (in contrast to single-word utterances). complex sentence. A sentence that contains more than one clause. constructivist. The theoretical position that when children first put words together in sentences, they do so making use of a system that allows only limited productivity. They do not have rules for sentence generation nor do they have abstract categories. descriptive rules. Rules that describe speakers" linguistic knowledge (in contrast to prescriptive rules). dual process model.
