Sentences

Question 1

conceptual (sentence processing levels)

Answer 1

what do you want to say
- agent - acts upon the patient; subject of the sentence
- patient -

Question 2

syntactic (sentence processing levels)

Answer 2

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

Question 3

phonological (sentence processing levels)

Answer 3

• use of the sounds of language to process spoken and written language

Question 4

sentence comprehension

Answer 4

inolves two procesees
- syntactic (structural) anaylsis
- semantic interpretation

Question 5

constraint-based model (sentence comphrension)

Answer 5

processing syntacts and semantics of words all at once

Question 6

two-stage model

Answer 6

keep track of syntacts and then figure out meaning after finding the structure

Question 7

garden path sentence

Answer 7

being lead down a path to expect something but you end up with something else

Question 8

garden path model

Answer 8

we rely on heuristics (unconscious quick decisions) when decoding sentence structure

Question 9

minimal attachment heuristic

Answer 9

• high attachment - prepositional phrase attached to verb
• low attachment - prepositional phrase attached to object

Question 10

processing syntax and semantics

Answer 10

ventral stream is where semantics are processed (left and right hemisphere)

Question 11

brocas area in processing syntax and semantics

Answer 11

structure of sentence

Question 12

broca’s aphasia

Answer 12

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

Question 13

serial model of sentence production

Answer 13

do one task at a time
- retrieve lemma, add suffix, prefix
- very slow

Question 14

parallel model of sentence production

Answer 14

do it all at once

Question 15

incremental model of sentence production

Answer 15

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

Question 16

prosodic bootstrapping

Answer 16

use rhythm to infer what they did
- when a kid does something bad we lower our voice when we say bad

Question 17

lexical bootstrapping in young children

Answer 17

how to figure out how words are formed in a sentence
- kids become aware of function words and how they are used

Question 18

syntactic complexity

Answer 18

how sophisticated the language is grammatically
- children that struggle with this will have short simple sentences

Question 19

syntax development

Answer 19

• 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

Question 20

overgeneralization phase

Answer 20

make an error in the wrong tense of a sentence
- i hitted the ball

Question 21

specific language impairment

Answer 21

development disorder resulting in delayed language development

Question 22

what pathway involves the syntax of sentences

Answer 22

doral. this pathway develops later than wenicke’s area which is taking info in and trying to understand it (ventral pathway)