Chapter 10 - Language

Question 1

Two ways we retrieve words

Answer 1

1. Retrieve grammatical, semantic, phonological info of a word at same time
2. We access each kind of information independently with no interaction

Question 2

Turennout’s language study

Answer 2

Using event-related potential technique
Speakers access gender of words 40 milliseconds before accessing phonological properties
We use split-second timing

Question 3

What are slips of the tongue errors?

Answer 3

1. Sound errors - sounds exchanged between words
2. Morpheme errors - morphemes are exchanged between words
3. Words errors - words are exchanged

Unlikely to create word with unlikely letter sequence

Question 4

What is theory behind speech errors?

Answer 4

Connectionist approach - spreading activation
Incorrect items have as much activation as correct
Each element of the word you are planning to say