Redimo - a Potential App on Syntax Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to create a didactical app based on the rules of Chomsky’s Generative Grammar to help students check their learning on Syntax lessons, practice before exams and understand rules of sentence structures and language generation patterns in English. In a nutshell, I want to achieve these goals: Starting first on six modalities (affirmatives, negatives, interrogatives, passives, emphatic —with topicalization and locative inversion— and ambiguous sentences), it will be possible to provide a syntactic description on a tree-diagram. Every projection would be automatically generated according to the grammatical category of the phrase. First, it would start by an “IP” or inflection phrase, where any other projection would be drawn around. Thanks to this tree-diagram picture, the students could check and put into practice their acquired knowledge before every exam. Moreover, they will be able to identify sentence generation principles, which is also possible for non-native speakers. In every main phrase, the user can click on to obtain an explanation and understand the phrase location. For instance, Abney’s proposal specifies that every noun in English must be syntactically preceded by a DP, even if it is overt or covert. Another example could allude to the Extended Projection Principle —abbreviated as “EPP”—, asserting that every sentence in English must have a subject within. In the thesis, the main purpose right now lies on trying to add these possibilities to ChatGPT, especially by making it able to disambiguate sentences and portray different projections.

Presenters

Diego De Haro
Junior Faculty Member / PhD Candidate, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

Mary Griffith
PhD Lecturer, Didactics of Language, the Arts and Sport, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

Details

Presentation Type

Innovation Showcase

Theme

Educational Studies

KEYWORDS

Syntax, Engineering, Computational, Linguistics, Large, Language, Models, Tree-diagram, Contrastive, Syntax