Sentence Comprehension

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Linguistic Approach
The goal is to develop a theory of grammar and how we represent our knowledge of syntax
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Chomsky's Phase Structure Rules
1. Show how words can be combined to produce phrases and sentences 2. How words together produce a phase structure grammar 3. Represents our knowledge of the English language
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Syntactic Tree Structure/Tree Adjoining Grammars
How sentences are broken up into syntactic constituents
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Autonomist Approach - Chomsky
Represents a model of competence and capability. Shows how we can discriminate between acceptable and ungrammatical sentences. Explains how complex sentences are derived.
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Autonomist Approach - Garden-Path Model (Frazier & Rayner 1982)
Led by ambiguous sentences.
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Card 2

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1. Show how words can be combined to produce phrases and sentences 2. How words together produce a phase structure grammar 3. Represents our knowledge of the English language

Back

Chomsky's Phase Structure Rules

Card 3

Front

How sentences are broken up into syntactic constituents

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Represents a model of competence and capability. Shows how we can discriminate between acceptable and ungrammatical sentences. Explains how complex sentences are derived.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Led by ambiguous sentences.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5

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