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Creativity of Language “Any speaker of a human language can produce and understand an infinite number of sentences.” Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to Language. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, p. 117.

Syntax “The part of the grammar that represents a speaker’s knowledge of sentences and their structures is called syntax.” Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to Language. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, p. 118.

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Word Order 1. Harold hit Ivan. 2. Ivan hit Harold. 3. The student picked up the book. 4. The student picked the book up.

Why Native Speaker Grammaticality Judgments are Basically the Same Because native speakers of a language share the same set of syntactic rules their grammaticality judgments will be the same.

How can we judge what is grammatical? 1. Does NOT depend on whether you have heard it before 2. Does NOT depend on whether it is meaningful 3. Does NOT depend on whether you can interpret it 4. Does NOT depend on whether it is true 5. It DOES depend on our “unconscious knowledge of the syntactic rules of grammar” Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to Language. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, pp. 120-121.

Grammaticality Judgments of Strange Sentences  Meaningless Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Giant tomatoes danced at my party last week.  Uninterpretable “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.  Untrue Today is Wednesday. My brother had a baby last week. Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to Language. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, pp. 120-121

Ambiguity Words (Lexical Ambiguity) He walked by the bank. He got shot in the back. Phrases (Structural Ambiguity) synthetic buffalo hides small car factory Sentences (Structural Ambiguity) The boy saw the man with the telescope. For sale: an antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers.

Tree Diagram of Sentence Structure The child found the puppy. Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to Language. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, p. 124.

Grammatical Categories Content Words noun N verb V adjective Adj adverb Adv Function Words preposition Prep conjunction Conj interjection Interj auxiliary verb Aux modal verb Modal determiner Det quantifier Quant

Phrase Structure Tree Victoria Fromkin & Robert Rodman. An Introduction to Language, sixth edition. Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers: 1998, pp. 114, 115.

Syntactic Rules Must Account for the Following  the grammaticality of sentences  word order  structural ambiguity  grammatical relations  different structures with the same meaning  the creative aspect of language. Fromkin & Rodman (1998), pp. 110-111

Simplified Grammar of “English” Phrase Structure Rules S  NP Aux VP NP  Det (Adj) N VP  V (NP) (PP) PP  P NP AP  Adj (PP) Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to Language. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, p. 140.

Simplified Grammar of “English” Phrase Structure Rules N  child, boy, man, men, telescope, puppy, posse, baby, buffalo, hide V  find, see, flee, sleep P  with, from, in, on Adj  small, synthetic Det  the, a Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to Language. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, p. 140.

Ambiguous Sentence But Unambiguous Structure The boy saw the man with the telescope. The boy saw the man with a stick. The boy hit the man with a stick. The boy hit the man with the telescope. Victoria Fromkin & Robert Rodman. An Introduction to Language, sixth edition. Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers: 1998, p. 117.

Grammaticality Judgments Victoria Fromkin & Robert Rodman. An Introduction to Language, sixth edition. Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers: 1998, p. 107.