PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Jean Berko Gleason, Paralanguage, Jargon
2 Nov 2016
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Lexicon is the vocab of a language. Fast-mapping: connect new words with underlying concepts after a brief encounter, during preschool years, better at fast mapping (can do it quicker) New word types: verbs, number of verbs used in our productive speech expands, in languages where verbs are stressed more (chinese, japanese, korean) children learn more earlier, modifiers: general to specific, big and small vs. tiny or medium. Issue of comprehension and production: contextual cues: where the word is in the sentence (grammar of sentences) Dingoes live in australia vs there are dingoes in australia (specific) Implies there are some dingoes, vs live in australia implies fact because of plural: word & world knowledge. A horse is a vegetarian (generic) vs a horse is sick (specific) Knowledge state: take into account if they have access to the necessary info to know what something is called.
