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What is language?

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A shared system of symbols and rules that enable us to communicate
Through semantics and syntax
Language is involved in thinking, storage of information, expression of emotions etc
- Big influence on cognitive psychology

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What did Hockett proposed?

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13 linguistic universals thats common to all languages
- Have to learn, no built in connections between words and what they refer
- Communicate with time
- Novel activity

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What are the basic assumptions about language?

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  • Humans have inborn, unique capability to develop language
  • Humans have the ability to process an infinite number of sentences on the basis of limited set of grammatical rules that are universal
  • Animals dont communicate?
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Universal grammar challenge

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  • Unclear which rules are included
  • Language develops fast
  • Differences between languages
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Evolutionary challenge

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The emergence of language in one single step instead of in successive, slight modification is unlikely

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Competence

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Internalized knowledge of language and its rules that fluent speakers of a language have
Ideal knowledge

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Performance

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Actual language behaviour a speaker generates
Includes errors and irregularities
- Effect on others
- What psychologist focus on
- Dysfluencies

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How do you study cognitive functions of language?*

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  • You manipulate aspects of language to see its effect on performance
  • Conclusions about the underlying cognitive processes based on the performance measures
  • Systematic approach
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Linguistic relativity hypothesis

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The language you know shapes the way you think about events in the world around you
- Language, perception and culture influences thoughts about the world
- There are different hypothesis on how language might affect thought

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Categorization studies*

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  • How language affects thoughts
  • Higher accuracy in differentiating and remembering stimuli if language has different words for the stimuli than if not
    Dani people: Only dark and light, could distinguish focal colors
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What is syntax?

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Words to meaningful strings
- To figure out meaning
- Focus on descriptiveness
- Arrangements of words matters
- Phrase order
When something happened

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Is there a relevance between sounds and meaning?

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  • Video from the lecture
  • Context matters
  • Dialects influence what you here
  • Competence vs Performance
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How is language organized?

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  • Phonemes
    Basic level
  • Morphemes
    Smallest unit that has meaning
  • Words
  • Phrases
  • Sentences
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Polysemy

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Many words can have several meanings and not all are equal
- Which meaning is the intended one?

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How do we form sentences?

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We plan and execute sentences through interaction of a set of processes
- Tailor our sentences
- Influenced by memory , knowledge and previous sentences
- More complex sentences, more taxing on WM
- We pause, delay and rearrange while we are taking

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What are some different ways we can manipulate aspects of language?*

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  • Word frequency
    Processing speed
  • Homophones
    Role of phonology
  • Homographs
    Role of context
    Polysemy
  • Pseudo words
  • Non-words
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What are some tasks you can have in studies of language cognitive psychology?*

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Naming task
- Name the presented word
Lexical decision task
Priming task
- Naming or lexical decision preceded by other (un)-related word

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Priming within trials - Language*

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  • Making a lexical decision between two words
  • Faster responses when words are semantically related than when not
  • Meaning and words has a close relationship
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Stroop color word task*

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Name print color of words while ignoring the meaning of the words
1. Control
2. Congruent
3. Incongruent
“Mind-fuck”

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Classical Stroop Effect

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  • The response time between congruent and incongruent task
    Interference
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Proposition

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Representation of the meaning that can be stored and retrieved from memory
- Not only semantic meanings
- There are 5 dimensions of propositions
- Connectionist model
Robin Has Wings

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Priming in item recognition

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  1. Presented with a study list of a few sentences
  2. Primed to one word - Trial 1
  3. Target word with recognition task - Trial 2
    - Faster responses if prime and target from same proposition than from other propositions
    - Faster responses if prime and target from same sentence than from other sentences
    - Indirect evidence that we store sentences together
    Seems to have structure as well
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Semantic processing in the brain - Study

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  • Presented one word at a time, to see ERP
  • What did not fit in semantically gave had an effect
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Case grammar

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Language processing - knowing what role a word has in a sentence

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Syntactic processing in the brain

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P600 elicited by words that are incongruent with the expected syntactic structure in the sentence, syntactic agreement violations and word order violations

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Aphasia

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Lost ability to use language as caused by brain-related disorder

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Broca’s Aphasia

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Issues producing language
- Severe hesitant to say words
- Agrammatical
- Word finding difficulty caused by production difficulties

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Wernicke’s Aphasia

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  • Little impairment on quality of speech
  • Alot of invented words
  • Impairment to comprehension
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Conductive Aphasia

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Unable to repeat what they have just heard

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Anomia

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Impairment in the normal ability to retrieve a semantic concept and say its name

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Inference

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Deriving conclusions that were not explicitly in the text
“Reading between the lines”

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What can influence comprehension of stories?

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Conceptual knowledge
- What are the assumptions we can take from this text?
Belief
- Do I believe that mountains can fly?

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What methods are used in understanding comprehensions of texts?*

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  • Often intuitions
  • Online comprehension
    Task that measures comprehension as it happens
    Reading times
    Sentences - Probe words
  • Thinking aloud - Verbal protocol
  • Neuroscience
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Metacomprehension

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Monitor how well we understand and will remember that info later
Influences how we may study info later and what info we pay attention to

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Labor in vain effect

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Spend too much time on difficult information and learns barely anything new

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Region of proximal learning

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Learning something that is slightly too difficult
- Use of scaffolding
- Often used in classroom settings

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Structure Building Framwork

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  1. Laying foundation
    Start of a sentence
  2. Mapping information
    Adding new information
  3. Shifting to a different idea when new info is presented

Enchantment - concepts are now boosted in their level of activation
Suppression is the opposite to enchantment

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Can eye gazes give any intel on mental processing?

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  • Eye trackers can see fixations when reading the words
    Differences between good reader and poor reader
  • Moment to moment reaction
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Immediacy assumption

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Readers try to interpret each word in sequent order

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Eye-mind Assumption

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Pattern of eye movements directly reflects the complexity of mental processes

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What can influence reading?

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  • Word count and length
  • Context
  • Ambiguity
  • Existing knowledge
  • Phonology
    When youre reading out loud
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Advantage of first mentioned

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First mentioned in a sentence or a text retain its significance

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Advantage of clause recency

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Last name has an advantage

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Bridging inference

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Constructing a connection between two concepts - two parts of the text

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What are the processes we can consider with comprehension of language?

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  • Activation of the key concepts in long-term memory gives an automatic associations between concepts
  • Formation of mental representation based on one concept leads to expectations and how next part is interpreted
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Schema Theories

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Integrating new information with knowledge in long-term memory
- Schema theories are well-organized chunks of knowledge about world, events, humans, actions
- Retelling stories can conflict with the background knowledge of the participant
The war of ghost story

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Rationalization

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Adding info, from semantic memory, that was not in the story to make the story more normal or reasonable
- Culture influences
- Knowledge
- Expectations

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A classic study based on schema theories

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Doolings research
- One group read a story about a cruel dictator with a fictional name
- Another group read the same story but with Adolf Hitler as MC
- Recognition test 5 minutes after or 1 week after reading
Correct answer
False positives
- Results
Group who read the story about Hitler rated those sentences more frequently as the same 1 week after reading
- Shows how we process information

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Situation models

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Are mental representations that serve as a simulation of a real possible world as described by a text
-A coherent and non-linguistic mental representation of the ‘state-of-affairs’ described in a text, rather than a mental representation of the text itself
- New information leads to updating the situation model
- Use inferences to elaborate on the information provided by the text

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Situation models - Research*

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Actively monitor multiple event dimensions during reading to asses whether a meaningful change along any of them and update situation model if change happens
- Reading times
Slower reading times when change in these dimensions as compared to when no change
- There are 5 dimensions of situations
Space - location
Time
Entity - Central character
Intentionality - Goals of a character and current event
Causality
- Can work with watching movies or videos as well

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The cooperative principle

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The effective way of communicating where the base is that speakers and listeners cooperate to understand each other
- Relevance
- Quantity
- Quality
- Manner and tone
- Relations between conversational partner
Infer and respond to partners knowledge and beliefs - Adjust
- Rule violation

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Audience design

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Being aware of the need to design your speech to the characteristics of your audience

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Optimal design principle

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Speakers design their utterances so that their audience has sufficient info to understand them

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Perspective - Taking in Conversation Study

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Perspective of the adult speaker
Trial 1.
Listener and speaker sees the same clue. Speaker has the target stimuli.
Trial 2.
Listener have no clue, only speakers does.
- No time constraint
Perspective of the listeners common ground taken into account
- Time-constraint
Egocentric speech - Speakers refer often to the reference object even when this object is not available to listener

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Perspective - Taking in Conversation Study

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Perspective of the adult listener
- Bookcase with things, some covered for the speaker.
- With time- constraint listeners appear to be egocentric
“Whats the smallest candle from my point of view?”

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What are some non-verbal aspects of communication?

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Taking turns
- Adjacency pair: A pair of turns that sets the stage for another part of the conversation
Gesture
- To facilitate communication to listeners
- Can help learning
Prosody
- Intonation, tone, stress and rhythm

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