Noam Chomsky
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- THEORIST = Noam Chomsky
- What is language and why does it matter?
- Conceptual-intentional system = the limits of our thinking ability
- Linear order = a structure that is based on linearity, and occurs in a sequence, such as a sentence
- Language is a way of thinking
- "An instrument of thought"
- It's innate
- To do with syntax, semantics, phonology and morphology
- Externalisation = externalise our linguistic thoughts
- Generative Grammar
- Representation of the nature of a languages grammaticality
- The process of which speakers recognise and produce grammatical sentences
- System or set of rules
- Generates combinations of words
- Applies to any natural language
- Generativists - aim to discover the rules and attempt to describe & define the operations of natural language
- Syntactic Structures
- Three models for generative grammar
- Finite state grammar
- Phrase structure grammar
- Transformational grammar
- Three models for generative grammar
- What type of work is Chomsky's?
- Mentalist
- Concerned with investigation of human mind
- Rationalist
- Allowing reason rather then sense-data to form the basis of enquiry
- Mentalist
- Chomsky's certainty?
- Human language is a biological trait, driven by a "language faculty" in the human brain
- Language Faculty
- Biological trait driven
- Genetically encoded
- "Device" of biological engineering that forms part(s) of the human brain
- Equates with his notion of UG (Universal Grammar)
- Universal Grammar
- It is a certain set of structural rules are innate to humans, independent of sensory experience.
- The theory of the genetic component of the language faculty
- Universal Grammar
- Transformational Generative Grammar
- An early attempt to apply his notion of Language Faculty and Universal Grammar
- Language Faculty
- Human language is a biological trait, driven by a "language faculty" in the human brain
- Context
- Behaviourism
- the acquisition of language in humans can be explained entirely by reference to external factors provided by environment and experience
- Structuralism
- Descriptivism
- Behaviourism
- Structure of language
- Interview
- Creative - generative - innovative
- as
we're talking we say new things that we may not have said before.
- There are very little repetitions, they do occu,r but very rarely (mainly conventional utterance and greetings)
- as
we're talking we say new things that we may not have said before.
- People learn language without training
- If you simply immerse a child in a situation where language is spoken
- He/she will acquire this system
- If you simply immerse a child in a situation where language is spoken
- Actual rules of language are unconscious
- Not taught at school
- They are unknown (no one knows what they are)
- Not taught at school
- Chomsky believes...
- Totally unconscious set of intricate machanisms
- Built into you
- Totally unconscious set of intricate machanisms
- Creative - generative - innovative
- Structure of language is a biological process of the organism
- Interview
- What is language and why does it matter?
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