LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Apple Juice, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Linguistics 1aa3 lecture 22: psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics and meaning. Assignment on avenue due nov 22: submit in pdf check checklist later today. How word meanigns are represented in mental grammar. Evidence for how meaning is represented in mind. Prototype at the center, with things that are less typical at the periphery. Agent: something that has all properties of agenthood: active and volitional, being aware: prototypical agent, example: a cause is almost an agent, but doesn"t have choice. Thematic roles: inanimate, affected by the agent, things happen to it: example: recipient is almost a theme, but not quite, they receive something, but don"t have all the same critieria. Experiencers are a bit of both: aware that something happens to it. Priming is used to test relations between stimuli. Can reveal relationships in different ways: synonyms, antonyms, category members, hypermyms: broader category, juice and beverage, hyponyms, juice and apple juice, part-whole, bicycle-tire; shoe-laces, shared attributes, cookie - moon; grass salad.