LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Universal Grammar, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz
30 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Narrow goal: construct the article models of linguistic computation and try to discover what is general about hem. Main data here : linguistic intuition of native speakers prescriptive grammer (cid:48859) (cid:48860) descriptieve grammer ( ) Black english vernacular (bev): be omitted s "s . Any spoken language is governed by rules the linguist is interested in descriptive rules ,not in prescriptive rules. , all sentences memorised (the creative aspect of language use) Turing test: to detect human like intelligence (alan t ring) language, sentence is in nite. (cid:48859) (cid:48860) . The property of recursion the possibility of which in language has been argued to distinguish humans form all the other animals universal the case of the pirah ( amazonia isolate recursion) Rules: implicit rules governing how we speak(no explicit prescriptive rules) subject verb agreement reduce the be verb rule recursion rule. Three very in uential pieces of work on animal psychology karl von frisch (bee dance)
