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SYNTAX

Clauses and phrasesare probably the most

basic syntacticstructures: the formerare used tocommunicative events

Some studies fromthe aquisition of

english has showthat children usesyntactic informationto infer the meaning

Childrenscapacity to use

syntax to infermeaning is calledsyntactic

bootstrapping

LANGUAGE

AND

!ne of the questions asked at the beginning of this unit

and that will probably emerge now and then duuring thecourse is the relationship existing between language and

THE NON-

SYMBOLIC VIEW

THE SYMBOLIC

VIEW

!ne of the majorcriticisms is that of"symbol geroundingproblem# how to conectsymbols in our mind tothe external world

$%t involves a set ofarbitrary physicaltoken

&'hese token aremanipulated on thebasis of explicit rulesand manipulation isbase don the shape (hen we perceive, our

body senses

communicate with ourbrain via the central

)'he system oftokens, string oftokens and rules areall semanticallyinterpretable: thaycan be