Week 10

Question 1

Define pure word deafness.

Answer 1

• normal hearing, language ability is normal
• can’t understand sounds
• some paraphasias (mixing up sounds in a word)
• impairment is in the ventral stream

Question 2

Does one word in one language prime for the same word in another language? If so, give an example.

Answer 2

• yes

- ex: chien primes cat

Question 3

What is a “false friend”?

Answer 3

• words that share form between two languages but aren’t actually related semantically
  ex: homograph (coin/coin)

Question 4

What effect will “false friends” have on word recognition in bilinguals?

Answer 4

• gives us insight into what extent one language is inhibited when we’re using the other language
• only partly inhibited

Question 5

What is inhibition?

Answer 5

-its what allows us to concentrate on what to rule out as irrelevant information

Question 6

Cognates facilitate lexical decisions. What is a cognate? Give an example

Answer 6

words that have similar forms and similar meanings
ex: English- rich
Spanish- rico

Question 7

Is inhibition dependent on fluency?

Answer 7

No, context is effect is more prominent than proficiency effect.

Question 8

Name and explain the second generation models of lexical access.

Answer 8

TRACE

• parallel, interactive
• 3 bubbles: auditory features-> phonemes-> words
• inhibitory connection within bubble (if its a stop, it inhibits all non-stops), excitatory connections between bubbles

COHORT

• parallel, modular
• 2 stages
• activate a set of candidates from acoustic information of the first 100-150ms of what you hear, take cohort and pass it on to the next stage
• second stage: semantics and context get evaluated
• onsets are important in this model

Question 9

Do rhymes primes like onsets?

Answer 9

No, onsets are more important than rhymes

Question 10

When is semantic information available in TRACE and COHORT?

Answer 10

TRACE: immediately and throughout
COHORT: after initial cohort activation then throughout