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Chapter 10: Language (Interpreting (Parsing (A sequence of words is…
Chapter 10: Language
Interpreting
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Garden-path Sentence 
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Prosody
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Principle of Minimal Attachment: Interpret sentences in terms of the simplest syntactic structure consistent with the input that's known at the moment.
Linguistic Relativity
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Proposal: The language that we speak shapes our thought, because the structure and vocabulary of our language create certain ways of thinking about the world.
Color Study
How people perceive colors,
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Structure
Syntax
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Phrase Structue Rule
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Tree Structure
hierarchical relationships, such as the relationships (specified by phrase structure rules) among the words in a phrase or sentence
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Prescriptive Rules vs. Descriptive Rules
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Descriptive Rules: Rules that simply describe the regularities in a pattern of observations; "improper"