PSY 0422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Wags, Family Resemblance, Unitary Representation
1 Dec 2016
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In the group of 2 sentences, the first one is ambiguous, the 2nd one clears the 1st. Surface ambiguity: people slow down, even re-read the sentence to figure out which is the intended meaning. Eye tracking: study where people are looking and for how long. We don"t look at every word: unfamiliar words are looked longer. ~ that language processing is incremental and makes certain commitments early in processing. Immediacy of processing hypothesis - we try to understand the syntactic structure of a sentence on a word-by-word basis, building propositional representations in memory. Shows how language and memory come together. This involves making some guesses from past experiences. Sometimes we are fooled when the best guess or most common choice is wrong. Making sure that people understand what is said and what is meant. People follow rules in conversation to help the listener know what is meant. People are assumed to cooperate in a conversation, and therefore follow rules:
