Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Syntactic Bootstrapping, Joint Attention, Temperatures Rising

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Marc Joanisse

Document Summary

Word: minimal unit of meaningful speech that can stand alone. Concept: representations of classes of objects or events (semantic memory representation of the word itself) alinguistic/non-linguistic, independent of a verbal label (name of thing) Dual nature of words: phonological form how it sounds, semantic representation what it means. Content words labels for concepts: nouns things , verbs events (actions, states, adjectives modify properties of objects. Open class: new words are constantly added, old ones fade from use. Lemma: most basic form of a word (root of a word) Lexeme: all possible forms a word can take (groupings by adding prefixes and suffixes. Uncouth (*couth), unkempt (*kempt), disheveled (*shoveled: not morphologically complex words. A model of semantic memory (collins & quillian, 1969. ) *links- important together: network of concepts, similar idea to schemas. Semantic priming experiment: lexical decision task, robin, nibor. Prime is either semantically related or unrelated: bird, table. Faster lexical decision times for related primes: prime: bird .