PSYCH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Formal Specification, Causal Structure, Parsing
17 Mar 2017
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Descriptive: grammar we spontaneously use and understand, what linguists pay attention to. Shape of mouth, placement of tongue, vocal cords iclicker. Recursion is often used as evidence for the productivity of language. Syntactic rules can be repeatedly applied to sentences. Can apply an algorithm to its output. Create new words, phrases, sentences by combining symbols. Trees (take parts and how they"re related to each other) Morphology: based on how you can create a sentence. Syntax: phrases and sentences, both relate to creating things. Find patterns in problem solving to resolve issues. Rules that govern how we form words and sentences = might be same rules that govern problem solving and idea generation. Semantics: the meaning behind the symbols, how meaning is influenced by context - also important for problem solving. Many of the rules of language can analogs that can be used to support cognition. Symbols can stand in for something meaningful (place-holders)
