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This course introduces students to a new way of examining our internalized knowledge about sentences. For example, although we aren't explicitly taught it, and know no conscious rule for why it is true, everyone agrees that the sentence Lucy talked to Ethel about herself is ambiguous, but Lucy expects Ethel to talk about herself can only refer to Ethel. We will develop linguistic tools for analyzing and theorizing about our Òmental grammarÓ, in the framework of current linguistics. With them, we will figure out the unconscious rules governing our syntactic use of language.
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