LINGUIST 2D03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dyslexia, Empiricism, Predeterminism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 2D03
• Professor: Victor Kuperman

Document Summary

Prescriptivism: how a language should be spoken and written. How/why do we generate research questions? to satisfy our curiosity to satisfy an existing social, economic, or technological need to utilize a new technique to study a phenomenon to evaluate a theory. Contributes to the knowledge of the world, is for everyone is the driver of changes in the world. Applied research: velar stops in children as an slp. Recency: a word that has been recently used is more active in our brains and memories. Hypothesize a relationship between a + b. Manipulate a and see behaviour or b. Variability of b can be explained by a. Participant variable: variables that we cannot control directly (to a point) i. e. age, race, gender. Ultimate decision is done by the editor. Variability: more than just the independent and dependent variable. Analyzing data: with the mean, with the median, with the mode. Sometimes the median doesn"t change, but the mean does.