Definitions
Deep and Surface Structure
Examples
Components and Elements
Miscellanious
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Define generative grammar.
What is a type of grammar that describes a language in terms of a set of logical rules formulated so as to be capable of generating the infinite number of possible sentences of that language and providing them with the correct structural description.
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Describe surface structure.
What is "an actual utterance that can be broken down". In other words, the outward form of a sentence.
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Give an example of a sentence that follows generative theory and one that does not follow.
What is The man held on to his phone as he walked past the train. Follows. The lady went to put. Does not follow.
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The 3 elements of generative grammar are
What is Sentence, competence, and components.
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When was generative grammar developed?
What is In 1950.
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Define language variation.
What is A characteristic of language saying that there is more than one way to say the same thing.
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Describe deep structure.
What is "A highly abstract level of a sentence that represents the basic meaning of a sentence." In other words, this is the way in which a sentence can be analyzed and interpreted.
200
Phrase Structure. Break down this sentence. Teachers plan lessons at home.
What is Teachers- Noun Phrase (NP)/ Plan- Verb Phrase (VP)/ Lessons- Noun Phrase- Noun- (N)/ at- Prepositional Phrase (PP/ Home- Noun Phrase-noun (N).
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2 principles/elements of a sentence are
What is Creativity and recursion.
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What book was written to further discuss Chomsky's generative grammar theory and when?
What is Syntactic Structure, in 1957.
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Define language acquisition.
What is The process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.
300
Give a sentence with the same deep and surface structure.
What is You close the door. The door is being closed by you.
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Give an example of recursion. Use the sentence Mindy has a house.
Mindy, who you are friends with, has a house. Mindy, who you are friends with, has a house at the end of the street.
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True or False. Not all sentences can find their way in grammatical theory.
What is True
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What two subjects heavily developed Chomsky's generative grammar theory?
What is Mathematics and Logics
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What do the * and ? mean to linguists?
What is * the sentence is ungrammatical ? The sentence is non meaningful or in-comprehensive.
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Does deep structure become surface structure, or does surface structure become deep structure?
What is Deep structure becomes surface structure.
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Give an example of a sentence with the word lexicon so that the meaning is evident.
What is Most pledges have a difficult time learning the lexicon of the fraternity on campus as it seems to be another language at times. Lexicon is the words that make up language of a group of people or an individual(s).
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Is this sentence part of generative grammar.The car saw its owner. Explain why or why not and tell what element is missing.
What is No, although it is a complete sentence, it is missing the competence element of the generative grammar.
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True or False. Correct if false. Human language is learned.
What is False. Human language is genetically determined rather than learned.
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Define recursion. Explain.
What is A phenomenon where a linguistic rule can be applied to the result of the application of the same rule. In other words, this is the repetition of a process, also known as iteration.
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Which of these sentences is surface and which is deep structure? Jill ran to the museum to catch up with her class. Dog chases car.
What is The first is surface and the second is deep.
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What aspects do lexicons include? Define two of the three.
What is Phonological, morphological, syntactic aspects. Phonology- The study of how sounds are organized and used in languages. Morphology- The study of how words are formed, also focuses on relationship of words in the same language. Syntactic- relating to the rules of language. The way that words are put together to form phrases.
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Amy placed her keys. Is this sentence part of generative grammar? Why, why not? Give a sentence that has all 3 elements of a generative grammar.
What is No. It is grammatically incorrect. Where did Amy place her keys? The dog barked at the neighbor.
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What is language processing?
What is It is how a human explains and understands speech.
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