Language and The Mind

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Decks in this class (25)

Language and The Brain (A)
What are three important issues i...,
What do nativists argue,
What is lennebergs 1967 theory
23  cards
Knowing a Word (A)
Vocabulary falls into which three...,
What are lexical entries,
What is lexical storage
11  cards
Lexical Storage And Lexical Access (A)
Are words stored in the mind inde...,
When accessing a word we will use...,
The more information we receive a...
12  cards
The information processing approach (A)
During the first half of the 20th...,
In the 1950s cognitive psychologi...,
7 stages of information processin...
21  cards
Animal Communication (B)
What did charles hockett 1963 pro...,
What are hocketts design features...,
Examples of animal communication ...
4  cards
Localising Language In The Brain (B)
Commentators have taken two views...,
What is aphasia,
Which two areas seem to be closel...
8  cards
Part one of the exam
0  cards
Psycholinguistic data
What is the preferred psycholingu...,
Psycholinguistic research is often,
What are on line techniques of da...
12  cards
Hockett's design features (1963)
What are the five main headings,
Channel 1 2 3,
Semantic features 4 5 6 7
6  cards
Decoding in reading
Lower level processes,
Higher level processes,
What are the three reading proces...
8  cards
Skilled and Unskilled readers
A top down quote by frank smith 1...,
A bottom up quote by charles perf...,
What did kenneth goodman 1967 rea...
6  cards
Eye movements in reading
Saccades,
Fixations,
Return sweep
7  cards
Issues in listening
The linearity issue,
The non invariance issue,
The normalisation issue
8  cards
Categorical perception
What is categorical perception,
Eimas siqueland jusczyk and vogor...
2  cards
The meaning of meaning
Prototype theory rosch 1975,
The prototype theory discusses,
What is the classical view
4  cards
Models of lexical retrieval
Forsters search model 1976,
Parallel search,
Cohort theory marslen wilson 1987
3  cards
Memory and language
We rely on to remember words numb...,
We tend to remember which letters...,
Baddeley 1993
10  cards
Writing systems
Logographic,
Syllabic,
Alphabetic
11  cards
Types of non-target production
Example of omissions deletions,
Example of insertions additions,
Examples of anticipations
8  cards
Reading errors
The three main types of reading e...,
The grapho phonic system,
The grapho phonic system similari...
11  cards
Psycholinguistic data
The preferred psycholinguistic me...,
What happens in a controlled expe...,
Examples of a controlled experime...
8  cards
Communication
What is communication,
Paralinguistic techniques,
Non linguistic communication that...
12  cards
Language Evolution
The development of english 5 steps,
What did darwin say about languag...,
Language developed at least years...
12  cards
Reading
Lower level decoding,
Higher level decoding,
Lower level decoding is in skille...
15  cards
Bottom up and top down processing
Autonomous models,
Interactive models
2  cards

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