Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Chief Operating Officer, Noam Chomsky, Transformational Grammar

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Ability to use finite number of words and rules to produce an infinite number of sentences. Convey information about other times and places. Good, unabridged dictionary 250,000 to 300 000. Most anything in english can be said with a vocabulary of 850 words. Telephone conversations: 96% of talk made up of 737. I work as a baker because i need the dough . I saw a man eating shark at the aquarium i saw a man eating salmon at the restaurant . Kids progress from phonological and lexical to syntactic and semantic. Call me a cab okay you"re a cab . Piloting a plane is dangerous = deep 2. Yes, child does learn that dog not perro or chien applies in english. Mistakes in grammar not corrected. (facts are) From 1st moments of life, infants vocalize (cry, coo, babble, etc. )