Monday, September 18th, 2006...8:17 pm
Language Theory Notes for 09.18.06
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- Interesting Animal Grammar Article
- Animals do not have the capacity for generative grammar. They are committed to the behavioral form of learning language.
- Another article described the genetic link of stuttering.
- Metaphor as thought. (My contribution)
- A grammar is the derivation of understanding (not meaning, not sense) from syntactical and contextual elements.
- The process of continuous instinctual categorization of words and contextual evidence is responsible for understanding sentences.
- A discreet combinatorial system is the ability to take a finite amount of rules and come up with an infinite amount of combinations.
- The meaning derived is greater than the sum of its parts.
- The universal grammar is present in every human, but it must be activated.
- Language = mental dictionary + universal grammar.
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