L2 (week 9) - Language Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is Psycholinguistics?
Field
An interdisciplinary field bridging research in cognitive psychology, neuroscience and linguistics.
How many languages are used in the world today?
Around 7000.
What are the 5 core properties of language in humans?
C, AS, S, P(G), D
1) Communicative
2) Arbitrarily symbolic
3) Structured at multiple levels
5) Productive (generative)
5) Dynamic
What are the 6 different language domains?
P, S, S, M, P, P
Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Morphology, Phonology and Phonetics.
What are phonetics?
Speech BLANK
Speech sounds.
What are pragmatics?
Language change based on BLANK
Language change based on context.
what is syntax?
Punctuation & BLANK
Combining words in different ways to mean something (grammar).
What are Semantics?
BLANK of using that word
Changing language based on content ( the meaning of using that word).
What is Morphology?
Kicked
Plurals and tenses relevant to components (kicked/Kicking).
What is Phonology?
Clop/lpco
The sequence of sound given by letters, e.g in English Clop makes sense and could be pronounced however Lpco does not.
What is a Phoneme?
Smallest unit of BLANK BLANK (SS)
smallest unit of a speech sound e.g. Consonants and vowels.
What is a Morpheme?
smallest unit of BLANK (M)
The smallest unit of meaning, e.g. unBREAKable, unTHINKable.
what does word knowledge help us do?
Best guess
Make a best guess at identifying a speech signal (what someone has said).
What is Phoneme restoration effect?
Cough
The ability as humans to understand the word or sentence even though it may be interrupted by a noise such as a cough.
What is the McGurk effect (1976)?
Vision + hearing
The study that showed how visual information is integrated during speech perception e.g. if someone is looking at the letters ba together and are hearing someone pronouncing ga they may actually hear ba the word they are reading.
What is the Mental Lexicon?
Internal BLANK
Our internal dictionary/ knowledge of different words.
What is lexical processing?
Spider
A web of words we use to understand speech involving words not isolated from each other e.g. Words related to cat could be black, meow, tiger, dog etc.
What is Orthography?
abcdefghijklmno
Conventional spelling system of a given language.
What is phonemic restoration effect (Warren, 1970)
When a phoneme in a speech signal is replaced with a louder noise such as a cough yet is still perceived as being present.
