PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Phrase Structure Rules, Transformational Grammar, Language Acquisition Device
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Diacritical marks: symbols above letters that indicate their correct pronunciation in a particular word eg: the line on top of the first e" in the french word brul e tells us how to pronounce the word. Articulation: the production of a language"s sounds. Wilhelm wundt was the first psychologist to do research into psychology of language. Chomsky considered the way we produced sentences. Sentence: a grammatical utterance recognized by a native speaker of the language. Language: open-ended verbal communication that consists of all possible sentences. Speech: the sentences that are actually spoken; it is only a small subset of language. Since speech limits the amount of sentences that are spoken, it states that there must be a set of rules (grammar) that everyone uses to make sentences in their language. Grammatical sentences don"t have to make sense eg: chomsky"s colourless green ideas sleep furiously they follow a grammatical structure but don"t make sense.
