Psychology / Unit 7 Psych 0752 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Syntax
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The idea
Syntax is the set of rules governing how words are combined into acceptable sentences in a language.
In practice
"The green ideas sleep" is syntactically acceptable and semantically empty.
Where people slip
Syntax and meaning come apart in both directions. Acceptability is not comprehensibility.
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