Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Language-frames

26.1 Understanding words
26.2 Understanding stories
26.3 Sentence-frames
26.4 A party-frame
26.5 Story-frames
26.6 Sentence and nonsense
26.7 Frames for nouns
26.8 Frames for verbs
26.9 Language and vision
26.10 Learning language
26.11 Grammar
26.12 Coherent discourse

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26.1 Understanding words, p 261
"Mary was invited to Jack's party
 She wondered if he would like a kite." [birthday frame]

26.2 Understanding stories, p 262
The readers mind remains engaged with that frame's concern [...]
If this concern is represented by some subframe, what are the
concerns of that subframe?

26.6 Sentence and nonsense, p 266
"Round squares steal honestly." A word-string seems
"grammatical" if all its words fit quickly and easily into
frames that connect suitably to one another.

"thief -- careless -- prison" Although these do not establish
any single well-formed grammar-frame, they activate some word-
sense nemes that skip past all our grammar-forms [...].
Ungrammatical expressions can frequently be meaningful when they
lead to clear and stable mental states.

26.7 Frames for nouns, p 267
"The wooden three heavy brown big first boxes..."
"The first three big brown heavy wooden boxes..."
In short, the way we think must have a strong and universal
influence on how we speak -if only through its influence on the
sorts of things we'll want to say.