Word Identification

Question 1

Allophone

Answer 1

Audibly distinct variant of a phoneme

Same phoneme can sound different depending on who says it, how it’s said etc.

Question 2

Phonemes and Categorical Perception

Answer 2

Sound waves in the air get detected by sensory neurons in the ear
Phonemes are the interpretation of sound waves in the brain

Question 3

Pandemonium Model (Selfridge, 1959)

Answer 3

Attempt to model a complex cognitive process like letter recognition using
Feature demons, cognitive demons and decision demons

Question 4

Interactive Activation Model (Rumechart & McLelland, 1982)

Answer 4

If a letter in a word is hidden, it is presolved with the word
Letter and word detectors become activated
Top-down model

Question 5

Connectionist Account of Wernicke’s Aphasia

Answer 5

Connections between the semantic level, lexical level and phonological level are weaker, phonological substitutions and non-words are produced more frequently

Question 6

Identifying Letters: Interactive Activation Model

Answer 6

Receptive fields linked to react to lines at different angles
Linked again to detect case specific letter shapes
And again to detect abstract letters
Finally link to detect small words and groups of letters

Question 7

Mental Lexicon

Answer 7

Contains mental representations of all words and words form

Question 8

Letters to Speech

Answer 8

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