Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Transformational Grammar, Noam Chomsky

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Ability to use a finite number of words and rules to produce infinite number of sentences. Convey information about other times and places. Possibly places you"ve never been to or seen. Structure is different from language to language, but is always present. Example: the strangers left: phrase: the strangers, word: the, strangers, morpheme- strange, er, s. Each time a morpheme is added, the word"s meaning changes: words. Good unabridged dictionary has about 250k words. Almost everything in english can be said with a vocabulary of 850 words. Telephone conversations are 96% of talk made up of. Helps understand things as they are broken down. Arranging the elements in a meaningful way: proper structure. Comes with formal thinking: order, order in the court. I"ll have a ham and cheese on rye. First is funnier as we know the alternate meaning of. Ability to appreciate ambigious meaning and logical inconsistency. Lexical ambiguity: confusion or double meaning of words.