PSYC 2400H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transformational Grammar, Polysemy, Opponent Process

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400H
• Professor: Chan- Reynolds Michael

Document Summary

Intrinsic frames of reference: relative frames of reference, absolute frame of reference. It is impossible to have learned all possible associations between pairs of words: this is analogous to the poverty of the stimulus argument. The poverty of the stimulus argument claims that the stimulus for language learning is too deficient to enable a child to use it effectively. Language acquisition device (lad) requires that children must have a specialized hardware, contains principles of universal grammar that apply to any natural language, a theory of language that children use to discover the structure of their particular language. Universal grammar principles that are common for all languages (applied in different ways, but are present in different forms) It is impossible to construct sentences with embedded clauses. Syntactic structures: criticized skinner"s behaviourist account of language, introduced transformational grammar, introduced notion of a language acquisition device. Symbolic: sounds and letters represent things about the world.