Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 18

Chomsky explained that a sentence can be stated in different ways and yet have the same meaning. The actual wording of a sentence is called its (a) _____ structure. The underlying meaning of the sentence that is not spoken but is present in the mind of the listener is called the (b) _____ structure. To convert our ideas from surface structures into deep structures and from deep structures back into surface ones, we use (c) _____ rules.