PSY374H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Psycholinguistics, Phonotactics, Mental Rotation
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Things that very across languages: phonological inventories (range and kinds of speech sounds) and rules of combination (phonotactics, basic word order phenomena. Assignment of sentence units to things such as, object, verbs. Free word order (often morphologically-rich language: agent/patient etc. indicated by morphological markings rather than sentence position) The pattern a particular language adopts will predict other things about the grammar of that language: eg: if verb comes after the object, it is most likely that prepositions will. Somewhere (cid:498)in-between(cid:499) (cid:498)john a dog bought(cid:499) (cid:498)john a dog bought the pet store at(cid:499) follow nouns. What is the relationship between psycholinguistic processes and language-specific properties: syntactic ambiguity resolution in spanish. English: someone shot the maid of the actress who was standing on the balcony with her husband. Preferred interpretation pattern: the actress -> corresponds to late. There are different statistical patterns in the two languages.
