LING 3Q93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Memory Span, Generative Grammar, Noam Chomsky
15 Jan 2016
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How does the brain process anamlous discource? (sentences that don"t make sense) # means infelicitous doesn"t work but its still grammatical. Its interesting to know when the mind has to work harder. But the mind and the brain are the same thing so we can directly measure brain measure activity (neurophysiological method) Any one of physiological, syntactic, spatial, semantic/conceptual can all go wrong. Ray jackendoff: cognitive science professor at tufts uni. Words map onto to phonology and syntax, which. Want to separate pieces of language; independent components (module) Marta kutas; professor in sandiego; has no time for grammar. Evidence in neuroscience does support the notion that the brain is a collection of specialized faculties even if it isn"t always clear what the specific function is of an area. But autonomy and informational encapsulation has not received much support. Theres a lot of cross talk both ltterally and top down connections in the brain.
