This is a page from a my psycholinguistics textbook from a chapter I was supposed to have read a few lectures (i.e. days) ago.
Relatively simple.
Imagine doing this for every sentence on every page for a hundred pages every day.
Are beginning to understand the depths of my desperation? I am, in essence, taking an upper-division linguistics course without having ever done any lower-division courses.
And so, instead of struggling through this morass of impossibility, I'm unapologetically mapping out my running tour of London to revolve around filming locations from Sherlock.
Apparently, my hostel is only about a five minute walk from 23/24 Leinster Gardens. I'm nerding out about all of this already. I can hardly imagine what I'll be like when I get to Cardiff.
That's a pretty standard sentence, right?
The thing is, comprehension of this sentence relies upon the understanding of these phrases:
1. Connectionist network
2. Phonological representation
3. Structure-content distinction
A reasonably-educated individual could puzzle out context-derived definitions that would look something like this:
1. A bunch of things coming together, like a web or a computer network
2. Something to do with sounds and speech
3. The difference between stuff and the stuff of stuff
Relatively simple.
Imagine doing this for every sentence on every page for a hundred pages every day.
Are beginning to understand the depths of my desperation? I am, in essence, taking an upper-division linguistics course without having ever done any lower-division courses.
And so, instead of struggling through this morass of impossibility, I'm unapologetically mapping out my running tour of London to revolve around filming locations from Sherlock.
Apparently, my hostel is only about a five minute walk from 23/24 Leinster Gardens. I'm nerding out about all of this already. I can hardly imagine what I'll be like when I get to Cardiff.
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