Human Cognitive Processes Texas AM University人类认知过程德克萨斯一与大学.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * Noam Chomsky’s criticism Productivity and systematicity of language Children can produce new sentences they have never heard before. Almost anyone can produce an infinite number of sentences. / Guinness Book of World Records: The longest English sentence ever written: 1300 words in William Faulkner’s novel “Absalom, Absalom! “They both bore it as though deliberate flagellant exaltation…..” Faulkner wrote, “They both bore it as though deliberate flagellant exaltation…..” Takashi said that Faulkner wrote, “They both bore it as though deliberate flagellant exaltatio