Language 2 Flashcards
Infrences: reading between the lines (Bransford and jhonson)
When people read a sentence like “someone pounded a nail to fix a bird house”
they assume he used a hammer. so when they recall reading that sentence they say he sued a hammer even though it was never mentioned
What are the diffrent kinds of infrences?
- creating coherence
- anaphoric
- instrument infrence
- causal infrence
What is an example of creating coherence?
Links ideas for smooth reading (e.g., “He was tired. The long hike had worn him out”).
What is anaphoric inference?
Connects a pronoun to a prior noun (e.g., “John loves pizza. He eats it daily”).
What is instrument inference?
: Assumes the tool used “She pounded the nail” → likely with a hammer).
what is causal inference?
Assumes cause-effect (e.g., “He fell asleep because he was exhausted”).
mental representations of text
- if someone said “jack hammered the nail into the wall” you would imagine the nail parallel with the floor
- you imagine what the text means
given-new contract
- we checked the picnic supplies. The beer was warm (this makes the reader infer, it takes longer
- we got some beer out of the trunk. The beer was warm. (processed much quicker) already talked about beer
syntactic coordination
- removing “to” from the sentence
- The girl gave the book to the boy vs.
- the girl gave the boy a book ⬅️ 50% of people picked
78% of us structure language diffrently to make it easy to communicate
Does culture influence congition
- there is a name for diffrent sahdes of blue in russain
- hence they can match diffrent shades quicker, because they reconginze that diffrence between blues much faster
Congitive benefits of Bilingualisim
- deleayed dementia for bilinguals
- you dream in dominant language
- you can shift ideas in mind much quicker than monolingual
