Ch. 11 Language Flashcards
___________ is a system of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas, and experiences
Language
The study of meaning of language
Semantics
Actual words, root words, prefix, and suffixes
Morpheme
The words that convey the bulk of the meaning (charge and recharge)
Content Morphemes
The idea that you have your own dictionary in your head. Contains information about meaning, phonological form, orthographic form and syntactic properties of a particular word.
Mental Lexicon
Exchange of thoughts and feelings
Communication
The ___________________ means that these components can be arranged in certain ways (“What is my cat saying ?” is permissible in English), but not in other ways (“Cat my saying is what?” is not).
Rule-based nature of language
The field concerned with the psychological study of language.
Psycholinguistics
Our__________ is all of the words we know, which has also been called our “mental dictionary.
Lexicon
The meaning of words
Lexical Semantics
Words can often have more than one meaning,
Lexical Ambiguity
_____________ task in which the task is to decide as quickly as possible whether strings of letters are words or non-words.”
Lexical Decision
The view of speech perception is special
Phonemic Restoration
Although the speech sounds we actually hear comprise a continuum of variation in sound waves, we perceive discontinuous categories of speech sounds. This is called ___________perception.
Categorical Perception
Auditory illusion experienced by visual experience video
McGurk Effect
