TB4 Lecture 3; Syntax (acquiring grammar)
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- Syntax
- What is syntax?
- Conventions for ordering words in such a way that changes the meaning of the utterance
- Finite rules, infinite production
- Evidence of word order comprehension happening early
- Hirsh-Pasek & Golinkkoff (1993); 19m infants showed sentence comprehension using preferential looking paradigm
- 5yrs, mastery of syntax, equivalent to able adult ability
- Conventions for ordering words in such a way that changes the meaning of the utterance
- Acquiring syntax
- Chomsky
- Learning internal sentence structures, not just grammatical sequences
- Syntactic trees
- Recursivity
- Pinker (1979); Language Learnability
- The process of acquisition
- Syntactical development
- The dominant view
- Universal grammar
- Chomsky
- Continuity
- Modularity + Human specific
- Universal grammar
- A different view
- Innate knowledge of 'roles' and grammatical positions (Pinker)
- Semantic bootstrapping (regularities)
- A radically different view
- There is no such thing as continuity, grammar is built and noticed progressively using TOM+ awareness of regularities
- Grammar is therefore based on learning a collection of expressions
- Morgan; Bracketed input hypothesis
- Statistics in syntactical development
- The dominant view
- What is syntax?
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