Lecture 4+6

Question 1

There is a difference between investigating the mental lexicon and investigating sentence processing. ( )

Answer 1

V

Question 2

Explain the unconscious availing parsing.

Answer 2

A sentence is understood (either by listening or reading) through the meaning of its words and analysis of its syntactic structure.

Question 3

Much of the work in psycholinguistics regarding sentence processing is focused on ________ .

Answer 3

how parsing happens

Question 4

What are the steps that takes place in parsing?

Answer 4

Parsing speed and the conditions when parsing doesn’t work.

Question 5

Explain bar-pressing test.

Answer 5

In this test the participant is asked to sits in front of a computer screen and read a sentence one word at a time. The participant presses a bar on the keyboard to read the next word till he/she reaches the end of the sentence.

Question 6

What can we learn from the bar-pressing experiment?

Answer 6

• The amount of time required to process certain words (content words / function words)
• How long participants pause at the end of clause boundaries.

Question 7

Tracking eye movement on words during reading revealed that eye fixation time is usually ________ for less frequent words and that the points of fixation are usually ________ words rather than ________ words.

A) longer
B) shorter

A) function, content
B) content, function

Answer 7

A) longer

B) content, function

Question 8

What do ERP experiments measure?

Answer 8

The electrical activity in the brain. That is voltage fluctuations resulting from the brain’s electrical activity.

Question 9

The things they put on a person’s head in an ERP experiment are call ________.

Answer 9

electrods

Question 10

Explain ERP experiments.

Answer 10

The participant sits in front a computer screen.
The participants reads words or sentences.
The computer records the instant at which a stimulus is presented.
Then the computer compares the voltage fluctuation to on going activity in the brain.

Question 11

What is the first thing that happens when you hear a sentence?

Answer 11

You hear the first sound of the first word and quickly access the word in your mental lexicon.

Question 12

What is bottom-up processing?

Answer 12

Where a phonetic analysts is used to isolate phonemes and words boundaries and relate these words in the mental lexicon.

Question 13

What is top-down processing?

Answer 13

Using the information you know about the sentence and what to expect from it.

Question 14

What happens when you have slip of the tongue?

Answer 14

The initial sound of a word differ in the voice feature whereas the place of articulation is the same.

Question 15

What is the cohort model?

Answer 15

The model states that a word’s cohort consists of all the lexical items that share an initial sequence of phonemes.

Question 16

Explain the cohort model for example when you hear the word “glass”.

Answer 16

When someone hears the word glass he/she initially considers all the words that begin with the sound [g]. When the sound [l] is recognized, the number of possible words (the cohort) is reduced to those words that begin with [gl]. This process continues until the cohort of possible words is reduced to one, which is the intended word.

Question 17

The phoneme is the fundamental unit of auditory word recognition. ( )

Answer 17

V