PSY374H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Minor Places In Middle-Earth (Fictional), Pragmatics, Crossmodal
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Lexical level select the meaning of speaker (the person, rather than stereo part). Pragmatic level relate to the real world (e. g. , speaker responding to audience applause) Modular = bottom-up, process the phonological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and finally pragmatic level. E. g. , semantic helps lexical processes (top-down knowledge used to determine the meaning of the word) Evidence for interactive models: shadowing studies (marslen-wilson, 1975, people will unconsciously correct mispronounced words, even though very good shadowers, recognition for words heard in context can occur within 200ms of their onset. Depending on speaking rate, typical one-, two-, or three- syllable word takes 550ms. 200ms < 550ms context helps: gating studies (grosjean, 1980, 1975) Gating = stop the word at the middle of pronunciation. Present only the first 50ms of a word, then 100ms, 150ms, and so on, until participants could recognize it. Words in context could be recognized within 175ms to 200ms of their onset.
