Sentences Flashcards
conceptual (sentence processing levels)
what do you want to say
- agent - acts upon the patient; subject of the sentence
- patient -
syntactic (sentence processing levels)
structure of a phrase in relation to other words of a phrase
- canonical word order - a sentence starts with a subject and then a verb and then an object
phonological (sentence processing levels)
- use of the sounds of language to process spoken and written language
sentence comprehension
inolves two procesees
- syntactic (structural) anaylsis
- semantic interpretation
constraint-based model (sentence comphrension)
processing syntacts and semantics of words all at once
two-stage model
keep track of syntacts and then figure out meaning after finding the structure
garden path sentence
being lead down a path to expect something but you end up with something else
garden path model
we rely on heuristics (unconscious quick decisions) when decoding sentence structure
minimal attachment heuristic
- high attachment - prepositional phrase attached to verb
- low attachment - prepositional phrase attached to object
processing syntax and semantics
ventral stream is where semantics are processed (left and right hemisphere)
brocas area in processing syntax and semantics
structure of sentence
broca’s aphasia
can’t produce words but can understand what is being said to them, they just can’t understand the structure of the sentence being said to them
serial model of sentence production
do one task at a time
- retrieve lemma, add suffix, prefix
- very slow
parallel model of sentence production
do it all at once
incremental model of sentence production
an inbetween of parallel and serial
- thinking of the next part of the sentence while still producing the previous word
- this is how healthy adults produce sentences
prosodic bootstrapping
use rhythm to infer what they did
- when a kid does something bad we lower our voice when we say bad
lexical bootstrapping in young children
how to figure out how words are formed in a sentence
- kids become aware of function words and how they are used
syntactic complexity
how sophisticated the language is grammatically
- children that struggle with this will have short simple sentences
syntax development
- behaviourist - can take anyone and shape their behaviour in anyway
- language is acquired (get it from people around you) - generativist - child is not getting enough language to learn all the rules they need
- language acquisition device
overgeneralization phase
make an error in the wrong tense of a sentence
- i hitted the ball
specific language impairment
development disorder resulting in delayed language development
what pathway involves the syntax of sentences
doral. this pathway develops later than wenicke’s area which is taking info in and trying to understand it (ventral pathway)
