PSY 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hobo, Steven Pinker, Behaviorism
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Heuristic: results of tanenhaus support interactionist position. 1-referent display eye movements to empty towel, 2 referent display lack of eye movements to empty towel: i gave a hobo a meatball sub, which reply is syntactic priming. I gave the united way : in ferreira et al good enough paper syntax first and interactive models share. Final parse of sentence in end of comprehension process is complete and accurate: experimenter presents three types of sentences to participants (brother/sister and actress) Speed up their reading: bad item: which of the following results would go against the idea that sentence comprehension is modular. Working memory is correlated with how people resolve syntactic ambiguities. Measures of grammatical development: most commonly-used measure: mlu (mean-length of utterances in morphemes) Count number of morphemes in each utterance. Rationale: measure of ability to combine morphemes productively . (what"s that again?) Measure is conservative estimate of grammatical understanding. Why do you suppose it"s conservative: the problem (?) with mlu:
