Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Speech Perception, Specific Language Impairment, Syntactic Ambiguity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Marc Joanisse

Document Summary

Autonomous (bottom-up) theory predicts: bottom-up effects initially, top-down effects occur later (effects of whether the sentence makes sentence parse later) Explains context effects as happening post-processing (after making an initial parsing of a particular sentence) The cop saw the man with the gun: predicts we initially think the cop has the gun, and we reinterpret post-processing. Multiple syntactic structures are activated at once (to interpret a given sentence) Sources of information: frequency of a syntactic structure, sense biases of a word, contextual cues (immediate context ex. Visual information how we interpret a sentence) Tendency to prefer a previously heard sentence structure. Lexical boost: increase in syntactic priming when verb is repeated in prime and target sentences (interpretation of sentence the second time is easier) Supports constraint-based model: people can be primed to choose a non-minimally attached form of a sentence. Prime the ball was kicked by emma .