PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Noam Chomsky, Surface Roughness, Aphasia
1 Dec 2020
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Language a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can produce an almost infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Symbolic: uses sounds, written signs, or gestures to refer to objects, events, ideas, and feelings. Displacement capacity of language to represent objects and conditions that aren"t physically present. Structure: has rules that govern how symbols can be combined to create meaningful communication units. Generative: symbols can be combined to generate an almost infinite number of messages. Surface structure consists of the way symbols are combined within a given language: syntax the rules for the combination of symbols. Deep structure refers to the underlying meaning of the combined symbols: semantics the rules for connecting the symbols to what they represent. Example: flying planes can be dangerous. (surface: deep 1: planes are dangerous, deep 2: piloting a plan is dangerous. Noam chomsky: transformational grammar: rules transform meaning of the deep structure to sequence of the surface structure.
