Chapter 10: Language and Text Comprehension Flashcards
What is language?
A collection of symbols and rules for
combining symbols, can be used to
express an infinite variety of messages
structure of a language is its ________ and the components are its ________
grammar; vocabulary
speech-related neural disorders impairing syntax is
Broca’s aphasia
Syntax impaired
Speech lacks fluency, halting
speech-related neural disorders impairing semantics is
Wernicke’s aphasia
Speech is fluent and grammatical
However, sentences are meaningless
Context can affect how we process sentences:
High and low constraint sentences
Garden path sentences
Ambiguous sentences: lexical (word >1 meaning) and underlying (alt. meaning only at deep level)
_____________ sentences facilitate recognition of expected words and interferes with unexpected words
High constraint
Structure Building Framework is by ________
(Gernsbacher, 1997)
which part of a text is the slowest reading time?
first sentance –> laying foundation
3 processes of Structure Building Framework
Laying foundation, mapping info, build new structures
hierarchically organisation of language
Phonemes: individual sound units.
Morphemes: smallest meaningful units of a word, e.g. do, -ing, un-.
Syntax: grammar, rules.
Lexicon: collection of words.
______ is the vocal intonation can modify the literal meaning of words and sentences.
Prosody
_______ is the linking of sentences such that they constitute a narrative
Discourse
how to resolve ambiguity of sentences?
Working memory capacity (Gernsbacher) + prior knowledge
Characteristics of language
Generative, communicative, dynamic
__________ are formed during text processing
mental models
