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Lecture 15: Language Flashcards

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Phonemes

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distinctive subset of all possible phones in a language

/t/ + /å/ + /k/ + /s/…

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Morphemes

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from the distinctive lexicon of morphemes

…take (content morpheme) + s (plural function morpheme)…

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Words

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From the distinctive vocabulary of words (It + takes + a + heap + of + sense + to + write +…)

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Phrase

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Noun phrase + verb phrase

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Sentences

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based on the language’s syntax - syntactical structure

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Communicative

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language permits us to communicate with one or more people who share our language

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arbitrarily symbolic

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language creates an arbitrary relationship between a symbol and what it represents: an idea, a thing, a process, a relationship, or a description

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regularly structured

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language has a structure; only particularly patterned arrangements of symbols have meaning, and different arrangements yield different meanings

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generative, productive

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within the limits of a linguistic structure, language users can produce novel utterances

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dynamic

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languages constantly evolve

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The hierarchy of language (from top to bottom)

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sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, phoneme

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How many phonemes are there in English?

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about 40

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What is the smallest unit of sound that signals meaning?

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morpheme (prefixes, suffixes, roots, or stems)

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Adults know about ______ morphemes

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50-80,000

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Syntax

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rules that determine word order

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How can phonological inflections help?

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they can distinguish meanings from phrases of which words can convey different messages

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Ambiguity

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results when the same wording corresponds to more than one meaning

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Lexical ambiguity

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word has 2 different meanings

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Syntactic ambiguity

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words can be grouped together into more than one phrase structure
(they are (cooking apples))

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How we process language

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hear sounds, identify phonemes, morphemes, and words and figure out the sentence context

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McGurk effect

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something can sound like another word when you don’t see the person saying it. (think of the youtube video of ba ba ba/da da da)

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Language processing is P_____

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predictive

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Predictability affects ______ time in reading

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fixation

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What can you see on an EEG with word predictability?

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you can see the extra processing (for words you didn’t expect to be there)

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______ is an ERP response to unexpected words

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N400

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Lexical access

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accessing word meaning

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lexicon

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mental dictionary

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What are the 2 hypotheses for “When does context have its effects”?

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  1. Get ALL word meanings from lexicon, context operates later
  2. Context allows you to get only the CORRECT word meaning from the lexicon
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What was Swinney’s evidence?

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all word meanings are accessed initially

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What was Swinney’s experiment?

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Subjects heard a sentence, and were shown words or non-words on a screen and had to do a lexical decision task; faster to decide if something is a word

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What happens to priming after time passes

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only a relevant meaning is primed

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Reading

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involves perception, language, memory, thinking, and intelligence

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Orthography

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sounds are mapped onto a set of written symbols

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ideographic languages

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words/morphemes are mapped with a pictorial symbol (Chinese)

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syllabic

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syllables are associated with visual representation (Japanese syllabic symbols)

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alphabetic

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each letter (grapheme) is supposed to represent a phoneme

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consonantal scripts

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not all sounds are represented, vowels aren’t written down at all (Hebrew)

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What is the ratio of grapheme-phoneme in transparent languages?

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there’s a 1:1 ratio (Italian)

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What is the ratio of grapheme-phoneme in opaque languages?

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1:many directions (english)

Sometimes it’s hard to plough through the tough dough …

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What is alphabetic reading?

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mapping from graphemes to phonemes (the sounds in words)

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Regular spelling-to-sounds correspondence:

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graphemes map onto phonemes in a regular way; no special knowledge about the word needed to pronounce it

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Regular words

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all the graphemes have the standard pronunciation

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pseudowords

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pronounceable strings of letters that have never been seen before

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irregular spelling to sound

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graphemes don’t map onto phonemes in a regular way

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Developmental dyslexia

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difficulty in learning and reading, poor phonological awareness, short term memory impairments

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Phonological awareness

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phonological awareness increases as one learns to read; a central concept in reading

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