LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lexical Decision Task, Flower Flower, Batboy
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Midterm: feb 25th, 2:00 ~ 3:00 in the regular classroom. The mind imposes discrete, abstract categories which don"t exist in the physical world. Gradations in the phonetic categories ignored. Ex: spanish o: littl to no e aspiration, boundary at 0 ms, pre-voicing vs. synchronized onset voicing. [p]/[ph] = english [b]/[p: ex: hindi, four-way place of articulation dependent upon vot. Take home: dimensions: similar to how we see color/rainbows, our perception of speech doesn"t necessarily match the acoustic/physical stimulus, we impose our native language categories on continuous acoustic. What"s in the mental dictionary: morphemes (words, re, ing, happy, wash dog, rules, re + v = v, information about non-predictable meanings. Category specific deficits: brain-damage sometimes leads to difficulties in accessing particular categories, tools, fruits and vegetables, animals, closed-class words, suggest semantic organization. Lexical decision task: not: decide as quickly and accurately as possible whether a stimulus is a word or.
