PSYC 3260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lexical Decision Task, Noam Chomsky, Speech Segmentation
12 Jul 2017
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A system of communication using sounds and symbols that enables us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas, and experiences. Hierarchical (letters words sentences stories). Children produce sentences they have never heard and that have never been reinforced. (cid:498)i hate eating vegetables(cid:499) Psycholinguistics: the study of the psychological processes by which humans acquire and process language: comprehension, speech production, representation, acquisition. Lexicon: all of our knowledge about all words we know. Phoneme: shortest segment of speech that, if changed, changes the meaning of the word. Morphemes: smallest units of language that have a definable meaning or grammatical function. Top-down processing in perceiving words through their meaning: Phonemic restoration effect. (cid:498)there was time to *ave, (cid:523)wave/shave/rave/save(cid:524), before she boarded the plane(cid:499). Speed of word perception and comprehension = frequency + dominance + context. Corpus of a language: frequency of different words, meaning and grammatical constructions. Mental representation about how we use words.
