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Ch. 5 - Words Flashcards

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What is a word?

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The minimal unit of meaning that can stand alone.

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What is a concept?

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-The mental representation of a statistical regularity in our experience
-Representations of classes of objects or events

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What do concepts provide to us?

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-they provide us with expectations, guide our responses to new instances of these objects or events

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What are the forms of the dual nature of words?

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-Phonological form- how it sounds
-Semantic representation- what it means

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What are the two types of words?

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1) Content words
2) Function words

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What are content words? Examples?

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  • words that are labels for concepts
  • nouns (represent objects), verbs (represent events), adjectives (describe)
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Content words are an __________ _________ of words.

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open-class; inviting new words all the time

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What are function words? Examples?

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  • Words that serve grammatical purposes
  • prepositions (of, at, in, to, from), determiners (the, a, some), conjunctions (and, but, because)
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What is a lemma? (naked)

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the most basic from of a word.

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What is a lexeme? (how you can dress them up)

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the set of all forms a word can take

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Words in _________ are composed of one or more syllables. Elephant example?

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isolation; “It’s an elephant”

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Within ___________, phonemes regroup to form syllables across word boundaries. Elephant and going to example?

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utterance; “It-sa-NEL-ephant” “Gonna”

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What is the onset of a syllable?

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the initial consonantal portion of a syllable; trying to make alliterations (the bold and the beautiful; then and there)

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Match onsets of syllables to ____________. Examples?

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alliterate; “the bold and the beautiful,” “then and there”

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What is the rime of the syllable?

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it is a vowel (nucleus) and final consonantal portion (coda) of a syllable

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Match rimes to ___________. Examples?

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rhyme; cash, dash, stash

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What is the onset, rime, nucleus, and coda of the word “speech”

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Onset: SP
Rime: EECH
Nucleus: EE
Coda: CH

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What are Phonotactic Rules? Example of a violation of phonotactic rules?

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the rules for combining phonemes into sequences to form words
(“sealed letter” is possible but not “seal dletter”)

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What do phonotactic rules distinguish?

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1) possible words: treb, fleen, gorp
2) impossible words: tber, fneel, gpor

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Phonotactic rules vary from language to language.
Tski is _____ in Japanese but not in English
Street is _______ in Japanese, but it is in English

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legal; illegal

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Words are symbols.
Where do we look to figure out where the meaning of a symbol came from?

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the traditional cognitive approach

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What is the traditional cognitive approach? Example?

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  • that symbols acquire meaning through relationships with other symbols
  • the dictionary defines words with other words
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What is the Symbol Grounding Problem (Searle, 1980)?

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The “Chinese Room Argument”
Say you land at the Beijing Airport and you are trying to read the signs. A Chinese dictionary won’t help you understand the meanings because ????????

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(Symbol Grounding Problem)
What are semantic primes?

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innately meaningful concepts used to define all other concepts

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(Symbol Grounding Problem)
There is no consensus about how many _________ ________ there are, or which __________ are basic.

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semantic primes; concepts

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(Symbol Grounding Problem)
What are embodied representations? What supports it’s exsistence?

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  • symbols understood in terms of the perceptual and motor experiences it evokes
  • support from neuroimaging studies (envisioning a brown of steak, showing a green steak evokes N400 anomaly)
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(Symbol Grounding Problem)
What is embodied cognition and metaphor?

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concrete concepts understood in terms of sensorimotor experiences

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Abstract concepts are understood in terms of __________ based on __________ experiences

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metaphors; sensorimotor
(“We’ve hit a rocky patch”
talking about the quality of the relationship by how
easily or not it is to physically walk down this path)

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What is arbitrariness of the signal?

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an observation that the sound of words gives virtually no information about meaning and is considered the universal property of language

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Systematic sound symbol patterns are frequent:
enlighs onset gl (light): glow, gleam, glitter, glisten, glossy, glare

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What is an onomatopoeia?

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a word that represents a sound - thud, bang, animal noises

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Onomatopoeias are not the same in different ____________. Pigs go _____ in English but ______ in Japanese

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languages; oink oink; bubu

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What is the Bouba-Kiki effect?

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Kiki looks sharp and jagged and Bouba is soft and fluffy

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3 main parts of the S-shaped learning curve

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-until 18 months, word learning is slow
-vocab spurt during preschool years
-word learning tapers off somewhat later in childhood

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4 Reasons for preschool vocab spurt

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1) naming insight
2) mastery of phonology
3) improved memory
4) increased social engagement

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Learning a word involves…

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1) Constructing a concept
2) Learning a phonological word form
3)Associating a concept with word form

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What is receptive vocabulary?

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A set up of words a person recognizes and understands the meaning of (no necessarily important to produce it in the correct context/ language comprehension)

38
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What is productive vocabulary?

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A set of words a person produces in the appropriate context.

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What is fast mapping?

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The ability to learn a new word after only one or a few exposures (may not be producing it in the context yourself)

40
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What is referential uncertainty?

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man saying “gavagai” and pointing to a running rabbit picture

No direct link between the word and the object or event it refers to

MAKE NEW SLIDES vvvvvv
when presented with a new word, people assume it applies to a whole object, the thing being pointed at

there’s nothing in the speech stream that a new word or utterance represents a piece or a whole of the thing it’s referring to.

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What is whole object assumption?

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new words refer to entire objects and not just part of it

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What is taxonomic assumption?

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new words extend to other similar referents
(“doggie means similar animals in general)

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What is mutual exclusivity assumptions?

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no two words mean exactly the same thing

assume the word tail doesn’t mean doggie but rather something about the dog

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What is slow mapping?

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learning words gradually over multiple exposures

45
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What is cross-situation word learning?

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Associating novel words with novel objects by tracking co-occurrence statistics (hearing dog with family dog and hearing dog at the dog park)

46
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What is joint attention?

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A situation in which all participants focus attention on the same object or event and reduces referential ambiguity (parent grocery shopping w/ kid… pointing and direct eye gazing at same object)

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What is syntactic bootstrapping? Example?

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The use of syntactic information to infer the meaning of verbs
(John is gorping vs. John is gorping the cat)

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___________ of word forms affect how easily they’re learned

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Chracteristics

49
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What is word frequency?

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How often a word in all forms occurs in a language

50
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What is neighborhood density?

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How many other words differ from a word by substitution of a single phoneme

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What is phonotactic probability?

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The likelihood that a sequence of phonemes will occur in a language

52
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(Phonological Forms)
What is the mental lexicon?

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The storage of information about words in long-term memory

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Initially, we thought word forms are stored as a set of ___________.
Evidence from speech errors:
- Keep your feet moving -> _______ _________
- Take my bike -> ______ ___ ________

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Phonemes; foot meeving; bake my bike

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Others think only the most basic word form (_________) is stored.
Can generate plurals and past tenses for __________.
- Dax -> daxes OR blick -> blicked
Irregular forms: separate entries or by analogy
- Foot -> feet but factiously moose -> meese

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Lemma; Nonwords

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Why are inflectional suffixes added to a word?

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They are added for purposes of grammar
(ex. toy, toys; play, plays, played, playing)

56
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Why are derivational suffixes added to words?

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It changes the meaning and grammatical category
[ex. agree (verb) —> agreement (noun) or agreeable (adjective)]

57
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What is the base frequency effect?

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The frequency effect of base for extends to inflected forms
also added to derived forms if no change in pronunciation
no base frequency effect with changes in pronunciation

58
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What are thematic relationships?

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the relationship between words based on frequency of co-occurence
(ex. coffee-creamer)

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What are taxonomic relationships?

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the relationship between words based on category membership
(ex. coffee-redbull: both belonging to the category of things to drink when you need a pick me up)

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What is the word-association task?

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-a participant produces one or more words in response to a prompt

61
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Younger children have more ____________ relations with the word association task while older children and adults have more _____________ relations.

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thematic; taxonomic

62
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What is the network model? (Collins & Quillian, 1969)

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-the mental lexicon as a network of concepts connected by semantic links

63
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Example of semantic links…

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ex. a canary IS A bird, bird HAS wings
- thus, a bird has wings

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What is the semantic priming task ?

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  • experimenter presents a pair of words in a sequence
  • participant performs lexical decision task on second word
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What are semantic priming effects?

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-target words are recognized faster when presented with related than unrelated prime
(ex.DOCTOR, NURSE - FAST RT
DOCTOR, SPOON - SLOW RT)

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What is the picture-word inference task?

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  • a picture and word appear
    -participant instructed to ignore word and name the picture as quickly as possible
    -when the word is categorically related to the picture, RT is delayed (cat, horse)
    -When thematically related, there is a faster RT
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What did the semantic interference task find?

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  • taxonomical relations yield slower RTs
  • categorical words compete for selection
68
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What is the dual lexicon model (Gow 2021)?

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  • dorsal sound-to-action stream stores phonological word forms
  • ventral sound-to-meaning stream links word form with semantic representations stored elsewhere
69
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What is the supramarginal gyrus? What word forms are stored in this area?

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-region of inferior parietal lobe, adjacent to the lateral fissure
-phonological word forms may be stored in this area

70
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The left hemisphere is related to _______ relation semantic processing: acorn-squirrel

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direct

71
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The right hemisphere is related to _______ relation semantic processing: lion-stripes (by way of tiger)

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indirect

72
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What is word recognition?

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-linking word forms in the speech stream to the semantic representation in the mental lexicon

73
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What is word production?

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-finding word forms in the mental lexicon to express underlying semantic representation

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What is lexical access?

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-matching the acoustic signal of the speech stream to candidate phonological representations in the mental lexicon
-the speech stream is ambiguous, so multiple candidates are considered

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What is lexical selection?

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  • choosing the best-fitting word match to acoustic input
  • context and expectation have influence at this point
76
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What is lexical integration?

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-linking selected word form to overall semantics and syntax of utterance
-understanding not just individual words of utternace!!!!!!!!!!!!!

77
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What is the top-down process?

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-being influenced by context or expectations

78
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What is the sentence superiority effect?

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  • we have an improved ability to identify words within a sentence as opposed to isolation
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What is the word frequency effect?

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-common words are recognized more quickly than less common words

80
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What is the visual world paradigm?

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  • participants interact with objects or pictures according to spoken instructions
    -object names are from the same cohort
  • older adults are more likely to select higher frequency items when lower frequency item is named
81
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What is lexical selection?

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  • going from a particular concept to abstract word form (lemma)
82
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What is phonological encoding?

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-going from an abstract word form (lemma) to phonological representation
(ex. p-uh-p-ee)

83
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What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?

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-lexical selec!!!!!!!!!

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What is the Levelt Feedforwardf model?

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  • each process is performed in a serial fashion (step-by-step in a specific order)
    -6 stages
    -after progressing thru the stages, you get some feedback through self-monitoring at the end of production
    -support comes from reaction time experiments
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Steps of the Levelt Feedforward Model
1)___________ ____________ –> lexical concept (expressed by word): <BABY>
2)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ --> lemma (basic word form): KITTEN
3) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ --> adding inflectional morphemes as needed: KITTEN-S
4)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ --> convert to phoneme string: K-I-T-UH-N-Z
5) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ --> gesutral score (motor commands to articulators)
6) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ --> sound wave :speech string</BABY>

Self monitoring –> feedback from sound wave back to conceptual preparation.

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1) conceptual preparation
2) lexical selection
3) morphological encoding
4) phonological encoding
5) phonetic encoding
6) articulation

86
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What is the Dell Interactive Model?

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accounts for speech errors in healthy and brain-damaged populations
as obtained!!!!!!!!

87
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What is the semantic layer of the dell interactive model?

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-concepts are distributed across a network of feature nodes

88
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What are semantic neighbors? (Dell model)

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(concepts with related meanings) have overlapping feature nodes

89
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What is a word layer? (Dell)

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one node for each lemme (abstract word form)

90
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What is the phoneme layer (Dell)?

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one node!!!!!!!!!!!

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