Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
the 1960s. Creoles fro mall over the world are often found to have gra m matical devices not traceable to any of the parent lang ...
We would agree that these phenomena are extremely interesting, and that they attest to a robust drive among human beings to comm ...
The acquisition of the grammar in turn has to be divided into factors learned from the primary linguistic input and factors due ...
other capacities but stress the specifically linguistic parts, whereas the reverse is true of non-linguists. The discussion here ...
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PART II Architectural Foundations ...
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CHAPTER 5 The Parallel Architecture 5.1 Introduction to Part II The last three chapters have surveyed the overall program of gen ...
begins the derivationof a sentence by generating a structure in the“base”component of syntax. The base consists of twoparts:(a)t ...
Fig. 5.1Architecture of Chomsky's theories over the years THE PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE 109 ...
As observed in section 4.2, the Extended Standard Theory of 1972 preserved the structure of theAspectsmodel, except that certain ...
what is preserved is (a) that syntactic structure is the sole source of generativity in the grammar, and (b) that lexical items ...
The units that encode stress, however, are abstract organizations of“beats”notated as a“metrical grid”ofxs. Eachx in the botto m ...
rules determining stress in a language concern theinterface between these twostructures: howa segmental structureis fit to an ac ...
Mississippihas a regular alternating stress pattern. Consequently, the principles matching the grid to the syllabic tier prefer ...
Fig. 5.2 The relation of the subgrammars for metrical grids and syllabic structure For another case, meter in music also involve ...
is as shown in (11a). However,in the context of expressed or implied contrast with another star, stress shifts tobig,as in (11b) ...
The upshotis in addition to being connectedto each other,as in Fig. 5.2, syllabicstructure and metricalstructure each have inter ...
5.4 Syntax and phonology The next thing to notice about the structure in (1) and the rule syste min Fig. 5.3 is how little they ...
b. Phonology (one possibility): [IntpSesame St. is a production of] [IntPthe Children's Television Workshop] c. Phonology (anoth ...
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