LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Phrase Structure Rules, Noam Chomsky
22 Nov 2012
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2 endpoints in the debate: empiricists: all nurture, nativists: all nature. Example 1: reading aloud would involve at least 2 modules: module 1 - decode visual input at the beginning of task, module 2 - perform articulatory operations at the end of the task. Or, different parts of an interconnected network (e. g. visual processing and word recognition) interact to permit reading and articulation. Chomsky: distinct language organ": bat sonar. Others: language a collection of other cognitive faculties. Harley describes psycholinguists as methodologically promiscuous (pluralistic) ". Hypothesis text hypothesis model test etc: field techniques (e. g. case studies, observation of spontaneous speech, corpus techniques (e. g. analysis of a body of elicited or spontaneous speech, or other data, experimental methods. Independent variables (e. g. age, gender, location of brain damage, sentence complexity, ambiguity) Dependent variable (e. g. reaction time, brain wave activity, subjective ratings) Subject (human participant: a few standard paradigms. Subject judges whether the written stimulus is a word.
