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Who was influential in early psycholinguistics

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Noam Chomsky

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Which aspects of language did Chomsky distinguish between?

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competence and performance

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competence + who it interests

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abstract knowledge of language: interest of linguists

includes grammaticality judgments from implicit syntactic knowledge

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performance

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use of language in concrete situations: interest of psycholinguists

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why is performance unreflective of competence (HMED)

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Hesitations
Memory limitations
Errors
Distractions

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What’s an important component of Chomsky’s model?

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grammar is generative - finite number of rules to create infinite number of sentences

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what property of language makes grammar generative?

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recursion

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if grammar is generative, what does it indicate about creativity

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we have rules-governed creativity

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whose rules are these and what are they

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Chomsky’s rules: must have a noun and verb phrase in a sentence

can also have optional determinative, adjective and preposition

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what do phrase structure tress or tree diagrams show

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that every sentence can be seen in terms of hierarchal groupings of its constituent words labelled for syntactic category

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on-line incremental parsing

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constructing a syntactic structure on the basis of words they arrive, based on our syntactic knowledge

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what is a main difference between parsing models

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encapsulation: usually syntax comes in first alone, then semantics etc is processed (serial processing)

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give an example of a garden path sentence

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the girl hit the man with the umbrella

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what do garden path sentences show

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your syntactic biases: you take longer to re-read something to ‘recover’ from your initial comprehension

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who created the Garden Path model and what type of account is it

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Frazier (1987) - modular account

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what is the first stage of the garden path model (2 principles)

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parsing done solely on basis of syntactic preferences:

minimalist attachment: go for simplest structure with fewest nodes
late closure: incorporate words in currently open phrase or clause if possible (link incoming material with most recent material)

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what is the second stage of the garden path model

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if phrase is incompatible with new information (syntactically or semantically), reanalysis occurs

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how do we interpret this according to late closure

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Sue left yesterday, rather than the man saying this yesterday

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who created constraint-based models and what type of account are they

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McDonald et al 1994, Trueswell et al 1994 and McRae et al 1998 - interactive accounts

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what do constraint-based models state

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all potentially relevant information is used immediately in parsing (syntax, semantics etc)

all possible syntactic analyses done in parallel dependent on available support

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according to constraint-based models, describe choosing one analysis

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if one analysis is strongly preferred, it is easily chosen

if several analyses get comparable support, it becomes harder as they compete to be chosen.

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homonym

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word with 2 unrelated interpretations

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what do homonyms cause

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lexical ambiguity

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what models explain how we select meaning (SOP)

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Selective access
Ordered access
Parallel access

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selected access

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context restricts access to the contextually appropriate meaning

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ordered access

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the more frequent meaning gets more activation, then tested for context

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parallel access

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all meanings activated and all tested the same for contextual appropriateness

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what is cross-modal priming

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priming that involves two modalities: auditory and visual

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who conducted experiments in cross-modal priming?

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Swinney (1979)

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describe procedure of cross-modal priming study:

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had target words ANT, SPY and control SEW, whilst reading a passage involving animals and listening device ‘bugs’.

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describe findings of cross-modal priming study:

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time point 1: facilitation for both
time point 2: only ANT
activate all meanings, use context to select appropriate one

32
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what type of experiments can explore homonyms/lexical ambiguity?

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eye tracking experiments

33
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who spearheaded eye tracking experiments?

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Rayner and Duffy (1986)

34
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what is a biased homonym

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biased: meanings unequal in frequency

35
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explain these conditions and findings

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neutral preceding context:
‘had…flavour’ took longer as we have to recover and change ‘port’ to less frequent meaning

disambiguating preceding context:
‘port’ took longer to read and we had to recover and change to less frequent version

control = soup

36
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explain these conditions and findings

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‘coach’ activates both equally frequent meanings

37
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what is a balanced homonym

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neutral preceding context:
both meanings are equally as frequent - competition to select one and takes longer to read ‘coach’

disambiguating preceding context:
‘coach’ was read normally as there was no competition of analysis, it clearly was one meaning.

control = cabin

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what model stems from newer eye tracking research

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Reordered Access Model

39
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who invented the Reordered access Model

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Duffy et al 1988

40
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Reordered Access Model

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hybrid of exhaustive and selective access models - context increases activation level of one meaning

41
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what effect does the Reordered Access Model identify?

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subordinate bias meaning

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BIASED HOMONYMS: explain why subordinate bias effect slows you down for prior and post disambiguating context for

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prior - you need subordinate meaning and this takes time to activate because of selective access
post - activated wrong meaning of homonym and need to recover

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BALANCED HOMONYMS: explain why subordinate bias effect speeds you up for prior disambiguating context

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resting level of activation for equally frequent words means there will be a ‘context boost’ for one - no competition

44
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lexical polysemy

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multiple senses - one word related to many interpretations or senses

45
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give examples of lexical polysemy

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Vietnam - war/country itself
school - you can talk to it/walk to it
book - the book is dirty/it is scary

46
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metonymy

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one part of an entity used to refer to entity as a whole

47
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give examples of metonymy

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wings took off (part-for-whole = synecdoche)
Belgium won the match (whole-for-part)
I talked to the school (place-for-institution)
they protested during Vietnam (place-for-event)
I read Dickens (producer-for-product)

48
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which three models show how poeple chose metonyms

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literal-first
figurative-first
parallel models

49
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explain this for choosing metonyms:

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literal meaning of school is chosen first until analysed in context

50
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explain this for choosing metonyms:

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figurative meaning of school is chosen first until analysed in context

51
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what do parallel models of choosing metonyms suggest?

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all senses/meanings of a word activated at once

52
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explain this for choosing metonyms:

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unranked parallel - there is no dominant sense of the word to you

53
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explain this for choosing metonyms:

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ranked parallel - dominant sense of word activated due to frequency/salience.

54
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how do reading times of metonyms and homonyms differ in terms of effect of frequency

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there is no effect of sense frequency for metonyms, but there is for homonyms (hence biased homonyms)

55
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compare speeds at which we process literal and figurative senses of one metonym

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same speed eg we process ‘he walked to the school’ as fast as ‘he talked to the school’

56
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if unranked parallel is the most accurate theory of choosing correct senses/meanings, why don’t we have a ‘semantic overload’?

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we activate an abstract UNDERspecified meaning, the same for ALL semantically related senses. You then use context to find the right interpretation.

57
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how does Atkinson et al 1988 define pragmatics

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“Distinction between what a speaker’s words literally mean and what the speaker might mean by his words”

58
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what are the two assumptions we make for inferences for reading

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text is coherent (sentences belong together)
text is cohesive (repeated reference to a thing is the same thing)

59
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inference

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process of developing information that goes beyond the literal meaning of the text.

60
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list 3 types of inferences (BEL)

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bridging
elaborative
logical

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logical inferencing

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based on word meaning

62
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bridging inferencing

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Backward inferences: relate new to old information to maintain coherence.

63
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elaborative inferencing

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Forward inference: information from text + world knowledge = inference.

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approaches on inferences

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minimalist
constructionist
hybrid

65
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minimalist approach for inferences

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only two kinds of automatic inferences:
local coherence
inferences you can access very quickly with ease (log. and bridg.)

66
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constructionist approach for inferences

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draw as many elab. inferences in time available

67
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hybrid approach for inferences

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search-after-meaning: the approach we adopt depends on our goals

68
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give 2 things elaborative inferences are important for

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eyewitness testimony (Loftus 1975 - did you see THE/A broken headlight?)

advertising tricks (Searleman and Carter 1988 - piecemeal survey results, hedge words, rhetorical questions)

69
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2 general characteristics of language processing?

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shallow and incomplete

70
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Ferreira and Patson 2007 on language processing
(“f___ + f_____“…“g____ e_____”)

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we use “fast and frugal” heuristics to arrive at “good enough” interpretations

71
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explain this in terms of suppression and skilled/non-skilled comprehenders:

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more skilled comprehenders = able to suppress more predictable meaning of the homonym and understand pun

72
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essentialism of natural kinds

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there is some innate underlying quality that establishes something’s identity (zebra can’t be a donkey)

73
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why can’t artefacts be essentialist

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identity established through perceptual and superficial features (plate can be a clock)

74
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can we attribute essentialism from birth?

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no: 0-3 years we cannot tell (donkey IS a zebra)

75
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describe essentialism’s effects on comprehension

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transformed referent: read slower for natural/faster for artefacts
non-transformed referent: read faster for natural/slower for artefacts

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