LING204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phrase Structure Rules, Speech Error, Sound
14 Sep 2015
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Syntax: what do you know when you know a language, how is this system of knowledge organized, acquired? (e. g. why kids learned so fast, dependent on other cognitive systems? (ability process frequencies, apply to language processing ) Part 1 linguistics as science: what is syntax, goals of linguistic theory, modelling syntax, the role of grammatical judgements: ability we have when made a speech error and recognize it. Part 2 building theory from data: grammatical categories identify, head and phrases (core, constituency tests (subunits/subject/identify phrases boundaries, phrase structure rules. Part 3: more complexity: subordination (phrase inside another phrase, movement (words phrase not show up in place we expected to , revising our syntactic rules/ theory based on new data. The study of how phrases and sentences are structured. Different from phonology. mediate meaning and convert to a sound form. Why do we need syntax: meaning(communicate meaning to/liner string transmit through sound wave) .
