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Exam 3 (Psycholinguistics) Flashcards

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Psycholinguistics

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the study of language as it is learned and used

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What is restricted context?

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  • In non-human languages (e.g. dogs, apes, bees), communication is predictable
  • non-humans don’t naturally combine sounds or gestures into sentences
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What are the 5 criterion of language?

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  1. semanticity
  2. generative
  3. displacement
  4. structure via rules
  5. arbitrariness
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semanticity

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language conveys meaning

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Generative/productive

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finite number of sounds -> unlimited number or words -> infinite number of sentences

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Displacement

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Can convey info about another time and/or place

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Structure via rules

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things you are and aren’t supposed to say, grammar

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arbitrariness

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sounds and written symbols are both arbitrary in meaning (e.g. a giraffe is a giraffe because we assigned it that name)

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What are the 3 components of spoken language?

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Phonemes, morphemes, and grammar

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Phoneme

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Smallest unit of sound that affects meaning
sound units we need to get in the right order to understand the meaning of words
Ex. difference between /p/ie and /d/ie

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How many phonemes are there in English? Is it a large amount?

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44, no

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Phonemes can produce ____ perception

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categorical

e.g. /ba/ and /ga/ gradient, jumping from one phoneme to another (as opposed to continuous)

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Morpheme

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Smallest meaningful units

e.g. “s” = makes things plural

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Grammar

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Rules of lanugage

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What are the 3 components of grammar?

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Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics

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Syntax

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rules for combining morphemes (e.g. English - red house, Spanish - casa roja)

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Semantics

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rules of meaning

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Pragmatics

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social rules of language use

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What 4 things must an acceptable set of grammar rules accomplish?

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  1. generate acceptable sentences
  2. reject unacceptable sentences
  3. explain why different sentences or phrases can have the same meaning
  4. explain ambiguity
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Structural ambiguity

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e.g. the rat is too hot to eat

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Lexical ambiguity

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words with multiple meanings

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Transformational grammar

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surface structure (words, sentences) vs deep structure (meaning)

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____ connects surface structure to deep

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comprehension

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____ connects deep to surface

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production

25
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If you have lexical ambiguity, you can convert it into (one/many) deep structure(s)

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many

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what’s an example of when the same deep structure can produce multiple surface structures?

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the boy was hit by the ball, the boy hit the ball, what the boy hit was the ball

27
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In grammar ___ > ___ (performance, competence)

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competence > performance

28
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Knowledge of grammar is ___.

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Tacit

29
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Language comprehension is negatively affected by: (4 things)

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  1. negatives
  2. nested phrases (Declaration of Independence)
  3. passive voice (Mary was kissed by Sam)
  4. ambiguity
30
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What are the 3 theories on relationships between thought and language? Which are correct and incorrect?

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  1. Language is required for thought (wrong)
  2. Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (sometimes true)
  3. Language depends on cognition (true)
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What is supporting evidence of “language is required for thought”

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thinking often -> subvocal speech

Deaf may sign during sleep

32
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What refutes the language required for thought hypothesis?

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  • problem-solving animals
  • abilities of humans without language (ex. babies)
  • abstract thought and memory (ex. Hillary with a mustache)
  • full paralysis through drugs - brain works without body
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What is the linguistic relativity hypothesis?

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One’s native language determines or influences the way the world is perceived, organized, and understood.

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What supports the hypothesis that language depends on cognition?

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  • thought precedes language (object permanence)
  • highly differentiated terms for category only occur if category is significant for users (e.g. snow, rice)
  • languages tend to evolve to reflect cognitively important variation (e.g. “touch screen iPhone”)
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T/F every phoneme has a unique manner of production

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T

36
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What do speech spectograms reveal?

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formants (bands of speech energy)

37
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Word segmentation problem

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if we don’t know something about the language, we can’t tell where one word starts and one stops - we only know where they stop because we know words
- e.g. misunderstood lyrics

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T/f speech sounds are discrete

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F

39
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Parallel transmission

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temporal overlap in production of neighboring phonemes -> phonemes cannot usually be segmented
- articulating sounds for two phonemes at same time

40
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What affects speech perception?

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age and sex
dialect
mood
talking speed

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Phonemic context effect

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phonemes are context-sensitive: acoustics differ depending on surroundings phonemes
- direction and form of formant transitions that give rise to the percept of the same consonant differ as a function of the vowel consonant

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Speech is segmentable T/F

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F

43
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understanding words often requires ___ ___

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speech context

44
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Phonemic Restoration Effect

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testing the ability of people to detect that a phoneme is missing

  • cough sounds - nothing missing
  • context came after, people remembered hearing wheel/heel
45
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What are the theories of speech perception? (2)

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  1. acoustic features theories

2. motor theory

46
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Acoustic feature theories

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we detect sequences of phonemes, each of which has unique and consistent acoustic properties
- not possible

47
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Motor theory

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speech perception involves decoding the manner of production

* detect the intended gestures

48
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What findings support motor theory?

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  • each phoneme (sound) has unique manner of production
  • seeing lips helps comprehension
  • McGurk effect
  • brain has specialized areas
  • bimodal perception
49
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McGurk Effect

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visual appearance of a speaker can influence your perception

50
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Bimodal perception

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poor speech quality can be processed and perceived as either sounds or speech
- same acoustic stimulus (computer recording), likely won’t recognize it’s speech until someone tells you it is

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