CLPS 0020- Lectures - Language Continued

Question 1

What does the “rumor has it” bugs experiment show?

Answer 1

That we access both meanings in the beginning of processing, but we continue to process only the meaning that makes sense in context

Question 2

What were the results of the “rumor has it” bugs experiment?

Answer 2

More priming for contextually related words when context has been established than for contextually unrelated words (hear ant vs spy vs sew after bug: same priming; three words laters: more priming for related)

Question 3

What are the four types of visual stimuli for language?

Answer 3

words, pseudowords, letterstrings, false fonts

Question 4

Why is there less activation for related stimuli (trapeze.circus) than for nonrelated (pollute/circus)?

Answer 4

takes more effort to search through the lexicon if there’s no priming: “trapeze” activates words in the lexicon, so the reaction time is faster

Question 5

What does it mean that words activate lexical networks?

Answer 5

A word primes related words, making it easier to identify if the second word is a word or not

Question 6

Do nonwords activate lexical networks? Will gat/wat/nose activate the cat lexical network?

Answer 6

Gat will the most, then wat, then nose: the further you get from cat, the less lexical activation there is

Question 7

How do we know lexicon activation is graded?

Answer 7

Graded response times fro cat/gat/wat/nose

Question 8

What happens to priming when there is a competitor? Time vs t*ime vs dime?

Answer 8

Less priming: since time and dime are fighting for representation, it takes longer for the system to decide

Question 9

What is suggested by children’s learning of morphemes in context?

Answer 9

That kids learn generalizations/rules of a language rather than rules per word

Question 10

Within the language LH, do all areas process language the same way?

Answer 10

Nope! Not even close

Question 11

What are the characteristics of Broca’s aphasia?

Answer 11

output problem (nonfluent, articulation difficulty, argammatic speech) but auditory language comprehension is good, although not normal

Question 12

What are the characteristics of Wernicke’s aphasia?

Answer 12

comprehension problem; fluent speech output, but empty

Question 13

What type of aphasic is more hazy at phoneme articulation?

Answer 13

Broca’s