CGSC170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.1 pt 1: Physical Symbol System, Deep Structure And Surface Structure
20 Dec 2019
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Language and rules- the challenge for information-processing models. Without language our cognitive, emotional and social lives would cease to exist. With very rare exceptions, all human children manage to arrive at more or less the same level of linguistic comprehension. Much research is done on how languags are learnt. Every language can be broken into grammatical rules. They govern how words can be put together to form meaningful sentences. Linguists work to discover fundamental rules that are applicable to all languages. We can understand commonalitites in sentences in terms of transformational rules that allow one to be transformed into another. Always claimed that the basic idea that deep structure language is governed by a body of basic rules. Language is interesting to compare and contrast the physical symbol system hypothesis and the neural network model of information processing. The role of rules in these models. Rules are explicitly represented within a system.
