reading and speech perception Flashcards
how can we define language?
- shared symbolic system for communication
- primary way is through speech
- emojis is specific to generation
lingustics
the discipline that takes language as its topic
psycholinguistics
study of language as it’s used and learned by people
reading
- words seen as a whole
-low ambiguity - rarely distracted by other stimuli
-low cognitive demand
-punctuation main cue
speech perception
-words spread out over time
- high ambiguity
-adverse conditions in everyday life
-high cognitive demands
-prosodic cues
what is the reading process
- reading involves several different kinds of processing
- orthography (word spelling)
- phonology (word sound)
- semantics (word meaning)
- syntax and grammar
- higher- level discourse intergration
naming task
- say printed word out loud as rapidly as possible
- link orthography (spelling) and phonology (sound)
lexical decision task
- decide rapidly whether string of letters forms a word
- link orthography and semantics
prime words task
- does a word presented before a target word effect processing of the target
- if prime word related to target in spelling, sound or meaning effects processing of target
what is reading?
- understand and address reading difficulties
- majority of studies english
- anglocentricites, relationships between spelling and sound inconsistent
- english children lean to read more slowly than a child learning a consistent language
what is phonological processing?
- do we access sounds when reading words?
- evidence consistent with strong model
- homophones- words with one pronounciation but two spellings
- errors suggest engaging in phonological processing
- phonological neighbours- words that differ in one phoneme
weak vs strong phonological model
weak phonological model
- phonological processing is inessential for word identification
strong phonological model
- phonological processing central for word identification
weak vs strong phonological model
weak phonological model
- phonological processing is inessential for word identification
strong phonological model
- phonological processing central for word identification
word recognition and its levels
- interactive activation model of visual word processing
1. feature level
2. letter level
3. world level
word superiority effect
- letter string presented briefly followed by mask
- decide which two letters were in a given position
- better when letter string forms a real world