LING 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Streetfighter, Asteroid Family, Scientific Method
6 Jan 2017
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We are trying to model the unconscious knowledge of language. We assume structure because we think that if we want to describe our unconscious knowledge of syntax and sentences, structure must be a part of it. Unconscious vs. subconscious unconscious means you are not aware of it, whereas subconscious means you know something is there but you don(cid:495)t. Example: word order if you are a speaker of english, you are always subconsciously following the svo word order. There is no agreement in japanese and chinese. So, it can be difficult for japanese speakers to learn languages like. French, which has a lot of agreement notice it. [negative polarity items: *some student ever attended the lecture, a. [different types of intransitive verbs: *a recently joked student, a. The students arrived recently: recently arrived students. Describing this is part of a syntactician(cid:495)s job. )ntended meaning: (cid:494)who is the person x such that you read a book written by x? (cid:495)
