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Sounds and Words Flashcards

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Define serial access

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Searching through known words until you get the ‘matching’ word. Retrieve meaning of matching word

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Define parellel/incremental access

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Identifying intial letters/sounds. Look for partial match. When another letter comes in modify the short list.

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Evidence for parallel access

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Gating studies. Show the different stages of word recognition

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Strong evidence for parallel access

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Eye tracking (Dahan, 2001), pps played parts of word and shown photos, multiple words matching first letter are considered more than those that do not match. (Bell, bed, compared to Apple)

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What are semantic competitors

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Words that have a similar meaning are also considered in parallel access (Yee and Sedivy, 2006). Semantically related words are treated differently even before the listener fully commits to the target word.

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What is semantic priming

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Further evidence for parallel access. Priming studies use lexical decision tasks (words and non words). Words are chosen faster (especially if they are semantically related) compared to non words.

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Outline other reasons why semantic priming may occur

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Overlap at the conceptual level - similar to mediated semantic priming
Frequent co-occurrence - can help predict upcoming words

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Outline cross-modal priming

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Priming can also occur across modalities
Priming develops with incoming input (Different word forms AND their semantic relationship are considered from the beginning
“cap” primes both “money” (capital) and “ship” (captain)

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What is form competition

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Words with more neighbours are processed differently than words with few neighbours (“cat” has more neighbours than “scissors”)
In comprehension a larger phonological neighbourhood size often means slower target recognition. -> suggesting that other words related in form are considered too, and if there are more of those words, it influences word recognition.

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Outline all evidence for parallel activation

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Match with incoming signals
Semantically related words
Phonologically related words

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Why are some words considered more during parallel activation

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Because they are more frequent in everyday language. So that word is activated most strongly.

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What are the three main ideas on how parallel activation works

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Logogen
COHORT
TRACE

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Outline the logogen model (Morton, 1969)

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Each word has a ‘counter’ (logogen)
Each logogen has a baseline level
Activation is needed to pass a threshold
If the threshold is passed, the word is recognised.
Multiple logogens increase in activation -> this is in line with the parallel model

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How does logogen interact with the interactive model

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Both input and context can influence logogens and thus recognition

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Describe how the baseline level of activation in the logogen model works

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Bottom up input increases activation levels (this occurs in parallel)
If the input is ‘bench’ (the same as the target word) then the activation threshold will be reached
Words that “fire” more often get a lower threshold [this explains frequency effects]

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What is the locus of frequency effects

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Eye tracking data suggest gradual and very early effects of frequency suggesting frequency effects impact the baseline/ resting activation instead of a decrease in threshold.
More frequent words get a ‘head start’

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Outline the COHORT model (Marslen-Wilson and Welsh, 1978)

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Focus on spoken word recognition and some challenges specifically associated with spoken words

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What are the three stages of the COHORT model

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  1. Access stage - set up the word-initial cohort of possible words, based on initial portion of the word
  2. Selection stage - Eliminate cohort members as they mismatch the input (or don’t fit with context), at the uniqueness point of a word, only one member of the cohort remains
  3. Integration stage - semantic and syntactic information about the word are integrated with the sentence context
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What are the features of the COHORT model

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Simple
Optimal
Parallel activation

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Issues with the COHORT model

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COHORT model states that words are simply in or out of the cohort when in fact a more graded activation is possible
We can recognise words even if their onset is disrupted
Words that overlap in offset but not onset also compete for selection (e.g. rhyming words like “beaker” and “speaker”)

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Outline the TRACE model

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Deals much better with ambiguous or disrupted speech input
Interactive model, this makes it easier to implement effects of contexts

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What are the features of the TRACE model

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Connectionist -> different units of a word are connected
Localist -> words and sounds are represented as units
Lateral connections

23
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Outline the context effects in TRACE

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Hearing a contextually similar word can prime responses to the target word. A node is added to the model. However this could also occur in a different way, contextually similar word could prime a related contextual category (e.g. target word = cat, similar = dog, category = animals)

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How does TRACE differ from COHORT

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TRACE puts an emphasis on interaction between word and phoneme level in both directions.
COHORT has stronger focus on word onset.

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What is the influence of context in word selection

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Context can influence phoneme perception. These effects are strongest when the input signal is unclear or ambiguous. Context will not easily override perfectly clear input, but can still affect it.

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Outline evidence for interactivity

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Eyetracking - Dahan and Tanenhaus (2004), when presented with word climb, restricted access to “goat” occured much earlier.

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How does context influence word recognition

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Context can influence lower levels such as phoneme recognition but also word activation and selection, suggesting that word recognition is interactive.

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Outline the differences between spoken and visual word recognition

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Spoken language is much older
Consistency - words often written the same way
Timing - Written words are available completely
Availability - Written words remain available
In written words the whole world is considered at once

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Similarities between spoken and visual word recognition

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Key mechanisms might be similar, both use parallel and interactive mechanisms
Spoken and visual word recognition can influence each other

30
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What is an example between spoken and visual word recognition

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Dyslexia - phonological difficulties in dyslexic readers
Phonological awareness can predict reading outcomes in grade 2

31
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What is another example between spoken and visual word recognition

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Mappings - Number of phoneme-grapheme mappings can influence both spoken and visual word recognition.
Words vary in their consistency (same phoneme can be spelled in multiple ways)

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How does mapping occur across languages

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Phonology can influence visual word recognition across languages, when visual words are presented in English, the Spanish phonology still matters

33
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Define cognate

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Words that are similar in form and meaning across two languages

34
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Outline the serial access theory of written word recognition

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In visual words issues such as no clear segmentation and it taking a long time to reach the end of a word are no longer problems

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Forster’s bin model (1976)

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Serial model
Split into two levels: access files, and master files

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What are access files

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Access files are organised into ‘bins’ to find the words faster
Bins are organised according to freqeuncy

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Strengths of Foster’s bin model (1976)

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Model can account for frequency effects
Model can account for repetition priming -> reorganisation of bins
Model can account for some semantic priming at the lexicon level (however, semantic priming can happen in very early stages and without full access to the word.

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Problems with serial word recognition

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Word recognition is still very fast in visual word recognition
Several types of evidence for parallel access.

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How are semantic competitors considered in visual word processing

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Semantically similar words influence visual word processing.

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