PSYCH 1100 Lecture 2: Psych Jan 14, 2014.pdf
6 Feb 2014
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Grammar: set of rules for making sounds into words and words into sentences ! Transformation rules: rules that allow us to change a declarative sentences into other voices (passive, active) or forms! Passive: the man was bitten by the dog. Negative: the dog did not bite the man. Question: did the dog bite the man? (over-transforming: eg. i runned home )! Colorless green ideas sleep furiously (completely correct grammatically, meaning is wrong)! She posed and looked like some girl from a world war 2 poster! Idomatic expression: i don"t want to burst your bubble ! Agrammatism: disorder of syntactic processing that follows damage to broca"s area. Poor at understanding reversible passive constructions (eg. the owers were watered by the. Poor at understanding object relative constructions (eg. the owers that the girl watered. Harvey strosberg: only four words he can still say: wow, consequences, paul, franklin! American sign language (asl): language used by deaf and hearing-impaired people!
