Aljović 09/10/2015

1

Aljović 09/10/2015

2

Aljović 09/10/2015

3

Grammar makes

the world

go round.

Aljović 09/10/2015

4

Aljović 09/10/2015

5

(1872-1970)

Aljović 09/10/2015

6

• Generative perspective: language as a cognitive combinatory system of discrete units• Double articulation

• Goals.• The nature of the cognitive system (language)?• How do we acquire this system? • How is the system used to produce and understand speech? • How is the system represented in the brain?

• Linguistics: Internal grammar, Competence, Performance, & Universal grammar

• Developmental linguistics: Innateness hypothesis

• Psycholinguistics: language processing and garden-path sentences

Discovering about Internal Grammar

The most usual, pratctical way to procede:

• rely on native speakers who act as informants and provide us with data

• testing our hypothesis about language (the cognitive system) with respect to the data provided.

Aljović 09/10/2015

7

Aljović 09/10/2015

8

Aljović 09/10/2015

9

Humboldt, 1836

Aljović 09/10/2015

10

Aljović 09/10/2015

11

• Hypothesis: such features are universal - common to all grammars (i.e. languages, dialects...)

• Another goal of linguistics is to develop a theory of Universal grammar, i.e. of human language.

• Generative linguistics: testing hypotheses about UG on a great variety of languages.

Aljović 09/10/2015

12

• Generative perspective: language as a cognitive combinatory system of discrete units• Double articulation

• Goals.• The nature of the cognitive system (language)?• How do we acquire this system? • How is the system used to produce and understand speech? • How is the system represented in the brain?

• Linguistics: Internal grammar, Competence, Performance, & Universal grammar

• Developmental linguistics: Innateness hypothesis

• Psycholinguistics: language processing and garden-path sentences

Aljović 09/10/2015

13

Aljović 09/10/2015

14

Aljović 09/10/2015

15

• Generative perspective: language as a cognitive combinatory system of discrete units• Double articulation

• Goals.• The nature of the cognitive system (language)?• How do we acquire this system? • How is the system used to produce and understand speech? • How is the system represented in the brain?

• Linguistics: Internal grammar, Competence, Performance, & Universal grammar

• Developmental linguistics: Innateness hypothesis

• Psycholinguistics, language processing and garden-path sentences.

Aljović 09/10/2015

16

Aljović 09/10/2015

17

Aljović 09/10/2015

18