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TRED 256: LINGUISTIC APPLICATIONS

  
 
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Group Applications presentation on Phonetics: PowerPoint Lesson Plan Movie (note: the movie file is 90 MB so it may take a while to download - it will play in itunes) (If that doesn't work try this Quicktime Movie: 39 MB)

Syntax part 2:

Student Presentation: Jon & Julia - PowerPoint Quicktime

Phrase Structure Trees (also called constituent structure trees)

  • Syntactic categories
    • phrasal categories (NP & VP)
    • lexical categories (Noun & Verb)
    • functional categories (Det, Aux & Comp)
  • Head & Complements - internal structure of each syntactic category
  • Order of elements within the phrase is determined by the phrase structure rules for each language
Deep structure: basic phrase structure trees of a language

Some categories appear on both the right and the left side of the rule - this accounts for infinite number of possibile sentences

Lexicon
  • knowledge speakers have about the vocabulary of their language
  • syntactic category of words & elements that may occur together
  • selectional restrictions
Selection:
  • transitive verb selects for a NP direct object complement

Phrase structure Rules:
  • Speaker's set of rules that generate language
  • Example: An NP can contain a determiner followed by a noun.

 

 
 
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