LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Terminal And Nonterminal Symbols, Constraint Satisfaction, Reduced Relative Clause
21 Apr 2017
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Basic sentence - 1clause = np + vp. What is a sentence: 1 or more proppositions that represent a complete thought, a propsition is a factual thought, ugly neighbours own dirty cats, 3 propositional thoughts- ugly neighbours, own cats. Three gnereal factors affecting sentencce processing: syntactic structures need to describe sentences in structural / grammatical terms. 2. parsing strategies the strategies listeners use to make meaning. Shows the hierarchical structure of sentences and relationships between constituents in the sentence: nouns, adjectives, verbs, noun phrases, verb phrases, np category can be in multiple places. Similarly, a np or a vp might contain a pp, which itself will contain a np: more the hierachy the more linear. Parsinf: parsing- what we do to determine what sentences mean. Initially we only parse a sentence one way using only syntactic info. go back and try another way only when we realize something is wrong.
