LING 1P92 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-6: Neuropsychology, Crossmodal, Latent Semantic Analysis
13 Jan 2016
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You know night is a word but nite isn"t. Recognising a word means you"ve made a decision in some way that the word is familiar. Identifying a word means that you"ve made some commitment to what the word is, sufficiently so to be able to initiate some response. Understanding a word means that you access the word"s meaning. Naming a word is accessing the sound of a word which in turn could mean saying it aloud or to yourself. Lexical access: accessing our mental dictionary, or lexicon and obtaining all knowledge about the word; its meaning, sound, appearance, and syntactic information about it. Age of acquisition: the age that we are first exposed to a word. Co-articulation: the way in which the articulatory apparatus takes account of the surrounding sounds when a sound is articulated; as a result, a sound conveys information about its neighbours. Homophones: words that are ambiguous only when you hear them (ex.
