Psychology 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Connectionism, Unicycle, Syntactic Bootstrapping

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

We combine words together to express complex ideas and relationships. We do this by using syntax a set of rules for ordering words in a sentence. Language enables us to transfer thoughts from one mind to another in the form of spoken sentences. Psycholinguists generally agree that sentence processing involves three levels: a conceptual level, where the intended message is formulated. A sentence provides a description of some kind of event or state of affairs, and the nature of the event determines the kinds of participants that can be involved in that event, or thematic roles. sentence to occur. Agent the entity that causes the event portrayed in a. Patient the entity that is acted upon in the event that is. Thematic roles the various types of participants involved in portrayed in a sentence an event portrayed in a sentence.