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PSY 369: Psycholinguistics Some basic linguistic theory part2 Levels of analysis Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics language structure medium of transmission phonetics phonology grammar morphology syntax pragmatics use meaning (semantics) lexicon discourse Morphology Language differences Isolating languages: no endings, just word order (e.g., Chinese & Vietnamese) Inflecting: lots of inflections (e.g., Latin & Greek) In Classic Greek every verb has 350 forms Agglutinating languages (e.g., Turkish, Finnish, Eskimo) Eskimo: angyaghllangyugtuq = he wants to acquire a big boat Angya- ‘boat’; -ghlla- ‘augmentative meaning’; -ng- ‘acquire’; yug- ‘expresses desire’; -tuq- third person singular Psychological reality of Morphology Speech errors Stranding errors: The free morpheme typically moves, but the bound morpheme stays in the same location Morpheme substitutions they are Turking talkish (talking Turkish) you have to square it facely (face it squarely) a timeful remark (timely) Where's the fire distinguisher? (Where's the fire extinguisher?) Morpheme shift I haven't satten down and writ__ it (I haven't sat down and written it) what that add__ ups to (adds up to) Psychological reality of Morphology Wug test (Gleason, 1958) Quic kTime™ and a TIFF (LZW) decompress or are needed to see this pic ture. Here is a wug. Quic kTime™ and a TIFF (LZW) decompress or are needed to see this pic ture. Quic kTime™ and a TIFF (LZW) decompress or are needed to see this pic ture. Now there are two of them. There are two _______. Levels of analysis Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics language structure medium of transmission phonetics phonology grammar morphology syntax pragmatics use meaning (semantics) lexicon discourse Syntax: the ordering of the words A dog bites a man. Syntax: the ordering of the words A dog bites a man. A man bites a dog. • Same words, but different word order leads to a radically different interpretation Syntax: the ordering of the words A dog bites a man. A man bites a dog. A dog was bitten by a man. • Not just the linear ordering • It is the underlying set of syntactic rules Syntax: the ordering of the words • The underlying structural position, rather than surface linear position matters. S NP a dog S VP NP V bites NP a a VP man V man bites Subject position Object position NP a dog Syntactic Ambiguity The same linear order (surface structure) may be ambiguous with respect to the underlying structure – Groucho Marx shot an elephant in his pajamas Good shot How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know Syntactic Ambiguity VP VP V NP an elephant NP PP P shot NP V P NP in my pajamas PP shot an elephant NP in my pajamas Generative Grammar The pieces: – Grammatical features of words • Dog: Noun • Bite: Verb – Phrase structure rules - these tell us how to build legal structures • S --> NP VP (a sentence consists of a noun phrase followed by a verb phrase) • VP --> V (NP) • NP --> (A) (ADJ) N Generative Grammar Recursion: you can embed structures within structures So we NP’s can be embedded within PP’s which in turn may be embedded within NP’s. NP --> (A) (ADJ) N (PP) PP --> Prep NP The dog with the bone of the dinosaur from the cave with the paintings of the animals with fur bit the man. The result is an infinite number of syntactic structures from a finite set of pieces Chomsky’s Linguistics Chomsky proposed that grammars could be evaluated at three levels: Observational adequacy Descriptive adequacy Must be able to predict acceptable and unacceptable sentences Explain how sentences with similar meanings are related (e.g., active and passive sentences) Explanatory adequacy Must be able to explain how languages are acquired and the similarities and differences across languages (language universals) Transformational grammar Chomsky (1957, 1965) Two stages phrase structures for a sentence Build Deep Structure One constituent at a time Build from phrase structure rules Convert to Surface Structure Built from transformations that operate on the deep structure Adding, deleting, moving Operate on entire strings of constituents Transformational grammar Phrase structure rules Lexicon Lexical insertion rules Deep structures Semantic component Transformational component Surface structures Semantic structures Transformational grammar 2 deep structures, 1 surface structure: Groucho Marx shot an elephant in pajamas 1 deep structure, 2 surface structures: Active/passive sentences: The man bit the dog. The dog was bitten by the man. Transformational grammar Deep structure Surface structure S S NP VP NP VP The car VP NP PP was put the car in the garage Movement transformation VP NP PP was put (trace) in the garage Psychological reality of syntax Derivational theory of complexity The more transformations, the more complex Evidence for (trace) The boy was bitten by the wolf The boy was bitten. (involves deletion) No evidence for more processing of the second sentence Some recent evidence or reactivation of moved constituent at the trace position Evidence for syntax Syntactic priming semantics Word level Network models Polysemy Sentence level Propositions Pragmatics