Organization of Mental Grammar

Question 1

What is the modularity hypothesis?

Answer 1

The brain has specialized devices for production and perception.

Specialized devices for production a perception, syntax and phonology (separate units)

Question 2

What are the different aspects of the acoustic signal of speech?

Answer 2

Voice recognition, language perception, speakers tone.

Question 3

What is the argument for there being a separate syntactic module?

Answer 3

Meaning depends on where a word is syntactically.

Question 4

What is recursion?

Answer 4

sentences occur inside other sentences.

Brain picking up on pattern (patterns inside of patterns)

Question 5

What is transformational grammar?

Answer 5

Transforming/changing the sentence structure determines the meaning

Question 6

How does universal grammar affect syntax?

Answer 6

Every language in the world has similar elements ex: all have a noun phrase and a verb phrase