Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Garden Path Sentence, Lexicon, Syntactic Category

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

Document Summary

Visual and auditory recognition is referred to as early processing whereas sentence comprehension can be called late processing. To answer this question we will need to consider many things. The modular view argues for autonomous theory. They argue that these stages of comprehension are autonomous in the sense that they do not rely on feedback from one another and are not influence by top-down processing. We"ve discussed lexical access in earlier lectures so let"s move to the second stage of sentence comprehension, syntactic analysis. At this stage we use a strategy called parsing; when we parse a sentence we are breaking it down into individual words and assigning each word a syntactic category. We can either parse a sentence online, where we actively construct word trees as we"re listening, or we can parse offline, which is when we wait for the sentence to be finished before analyzing. Ambiguity in sentences is a way of examining what methods we use.