PSYC 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phrase Structure Rules, Grammaticality
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Assembly: you have pieces, assemble the words; regular words. One system: memorize all forms and extend regular forms via analogy. Syntax rules that determine grammatical acceptability. Regular words cluster together and irregular words cluster together: taking morphemes (words) and combining them to make higher level representations (sentences, not about whether it means anything, just if its grammatical in some dialect. Something that acts like a noun in the syntactic structure. What are some components of syntax: iteration: you can always add another phrase to make it longer. All human languages have the ability to iterate: recursion: embedding phrases within other phrases. Expand the noun, describe something more, the embedding becomes part. English: word order, function words, morphemes that of the noun phrase signal grammatical class (ed, s, etc. ) Syntactic rules: language is compositional: use rules to generate combinations of words, comprison case: finite state grammar an example that doesn"t work.
