Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Syntactic Ambiguity, Transformational Grammar, Deep Structure And Surface Structure

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Ingrid L.Stefanovic

Document Summary

Generativity: ability to use nite number of words & rules to produce in nite number of sentences. Displacement: convey info about other times & places. Arranging the elements in a meaningful way. Syntax is correct but sentence does not make any sense Humour: most humour is based on ambiguity of some kind, with formal thinking. Lexical ambiguity: confusion or double meaning in words. Semantic ambiguity: kids progress from phonological & lexical to syntactic & semantic overall meaning. Call me a cab okay, you"re a cab . Ying planes can be dangerous surface structure. Deep structure of given sentence: planes are dangerous in the air, piloting a plane is dangerous. Result of imitation & reinforcement (not really) Child needs to learn dog vs. perro or chien . Also: facts are corrected, mistakes in grammar are not. From rst moments in life, babies vocalize. By 2 months, infants show phoneme discrimination (jusczyk, 1985)