Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Baby Talk, Noam Chomsky, University Of Western Ontario
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Generative- with a finite number of words, there are an infinite number of possible sentences. Displacement- convey info about time/place not current/present. Organization- language is structured: one exam: know how to break down a word into its morphemes, e. g. ballers has three morphemes (ball, er, s) Almost anything in english can be said in 850 words. Average phone conversation consists of about 737 words. The longer the word the less likely you are to say it correlation of length to likelihood of saying it is -0. 75. Arranging the elements in a meaningful way. Phonological ambiguity- (cid:272)o(cid:374)fusio(cid:374) of sou(cid:374)ds, (cid:862)o(cid:396)a(cid:374)ge you glad i did(cid:374)"t say (cid:271)a(cid:374)a(cid:374)a(cid:863) Lexical ambiguity- (cid:272)o(cid:374)fusio(cid:374) of dou(cid:271)le (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds, (cid:862)i (cid:449)o(cid:396)k as a (cid:271)ake(cid:396) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause i (cid:374)eed the dough(cid:863) Syntactic ambiguity- (cid:272)o(cid:374)fusio(cid:374) i(cid:374) st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e, (cid:862)a (cid:373)a(cid:374) eati(cid:374)g sha(cid:396)k(cid:863) Semantic ambiguity- confusio(cid:374) i(cid:374) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, (cid:862)i"(cid:373) ti(cid:396)ed(cid:863) (cid:862)hi ti(cid:396)ed, i"(cid:373) dad(cid:863) The key is creativity putting language together in your own way.