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- “Don’t bite off more than you can chew.”
- œx œy ¬((HAVE (YOU (ABILITYx)) & NEED (TASKy (ABILITYx)) e ¬DO (YOU
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- Behaviorism
- Tabula rasa
- Empiricism
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- “Behaviorism is a theory in the philosophy of mind which maintains that
talk of mental events should be translated into talk about observable
behavior. Behaviorism parts company with dualistic traditions which hold
that mind is a distinct substance from material bodies” (Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
- www.utm.edu/research/iep/b/behavior.htm
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- The mind comes as a blank slate
- Basic Tenet of Behaviorism
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- An approach to acquiring knowledge that emphasizes repeatable
observations through the physical
senses
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- “Methodologically, it analyzes large-scale systems by examining the
relations and functions of the smallest constituent elements of such
systems, which range from human languages and cultural practices to
folktales and literary texts” (pratt.edu/~arch543p/help/structuralism.html)
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- Leonard Bloomfield
- Bloomfield’s research was fueled by many of the Amerindian languages
- Zellig Harris
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- Noam Chomsky was a student of Zellig Harris
- Chomsky wanted to get at meaning—he needed a tool to get at the syntax
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- Corpus-based
- Examples from observation, not from introspection
- Taxonomic: no universals
- Bottom-Up: phonetics, phonology, etc…
- Each level is autonomous
- Based on early 1900s ideas: behaviorism, tabula rasa, empiricism
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- Not necessarily corpus-based
- Introspection is allowed
- Deals with universals: Universal Grammar
- Bottom-up: starting with syntax
- Still autonomous syntax
- A branch of individual, not social, psychology
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- Neglected Syntax
- Ignored Meaning
- Bottom-Up: This approach limits what can be done
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- Definition of language: set of sentences defined by a grammar
- Confusion between grammaticality and acceptability
- Ignores communication
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