Midterm (0-20) Flashcards
psycholinguistics
scientific study of language as it is represented in the mind/brain
competence
idealized capacity that is located as a psychological or mental property or function (knowing)
performance
production of actual utterances (doing)
competence in syntax
syntactic knowledge
performance in syntax
parsing; application of syntactic knowledge
Universal Grammar
the idea that certain aspects of our knowledge and understanding are innate, part of our biological endowment, genetically determined, on a par with the elements of our common nature that causes us to grow arms and legs rather than wings; language is an organ of the body
poverty of stimulus
quality of information available in the input is too meagre to account for the rich system of language that children acquire
aspects of poverty of stimulus
- degenerate input
- negative evidence
- structure dependence
degenerate input (POS)
parents provide a poor model of language learning
negative evidence (POS)
parents do not correct their children’s errors
structure dependence (POS)
children have knowledge of certain aspects of grammar, despite a lack of evidence for them in the input
how can we measure production?
picture naming; shadowing; real production
on-line techniques
measure variables that tap into language processing as it happens
off-line techniques
measure variables related to subsequent outcomes of processing
behavioral methods
speed accuracy trade-off; cross-modal priming; lexical decision; gating technique; visual world paradigm; self-paced reading; rapid serial visual presentation; eyetracking during reading; analysis of speech errors; picture naming; referential communication task
