3 | Finding words Flashcards
What is lexicalisation?
The process from thoughts to words
What is the frequency effect?
Words that are used frequently are easier to receive from the mental lexicon
What is the predictability effect?
Words that fit a topic/context are easier to receive from the mental lexicon
What is transitional probability?
The probability that a word will follow in a setence or after another word.
What is the slots-and-fillers approach?
It is when the sentence is split into different slots and different are the fillers to the slots. Often shown in errors.
What two errors are of the type mis-selection?
Substitution (One word replaces the other) Often antonyms
Blend (Two words are merged) Often synonyms
What three errors are of the type mis-ordering?
Anticipation (A word appears earlier than intended)
Preservation (a word appears again later in the
sentence)
Exchange (Two words swap places)
All of these are often of the same grammatical category
What is an omission error?
Omission (A word is left out)
What is an addition error?
Addition (An extra word appears)
What is a concept-level relationship?
Related concepts activate their lemmas at the same time
What is lemma-level relationship?
Words that arise through the associations they have with one another. Activation flows through the associative links and the wrong lexeme is inserted into the utterance
What is a malapropism?
Errors where the words produced is similar to the intended word in its sound shape, and not necessarily its meaning
How does serial models represent speech production?
represent the speech process as a series of stages that are independent of one another, and where the speaker only has access to one word at a time. There is also a unidirectional flow of information between the different stages in the serial model.
How does interactive models represent speech production?
information spreads by way of activation from units at one stage down to multiple units at the next stage, and also back up the higher stages.
What is inhibition in finding words?
The more active a candidate word is, the more strongly it inhibits its competitors
High-frequency words will often dominate and inhibit competitors words
