Week 10: Social Aspects

Question 1

Sentence meaning vs speaker meaning

Answer 1

Semantics vs pragmatics

Question 2

When does context (e.g. speaker voice) come into play?

Answer 2

Late (two step model) vs Early (immediate integration account)

ERP evidence supports Early

Question 3

Two step model of language interpretation

Answer 3

1) Derive sentence meaning

2) Pragmatic interpretation i.e. contextual incongruence

Question 4

Socially contextual factors

Answer 4

Gender and age of speaker, emotional valence of speech

Age of listener: older adults focus more on positive stimuli e.g. facial expressions

Question 5

Summary of visual world findings on comprehension

Answer 5

‘Verify as you go’ incrementality

Fast, predictive system

Non-modular (e.g. effect of vision)

Question 6

CIA

Answer 6

Coordinated Interplay Account

For each word:

1) Sentence interpretation, then
2) Language guides visual attention, then
3) Co-indexing of language- and scene-based representation