LIN 3713 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Spoken Word, Lexical Item, Speech Recognition
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This section is about words what they consist of and how we find them, use them, and relate them to each other. Psycholinguists refer to the representation of words in permanent memory as our internal lexicon. Also stored in our internal lexicon are the properties we associate with words which include meaning of the word, its spelling and pronunciation, its relationship to other words, and related information. The internal lexicon also contains information that is not strictly lexical. Lexical access is the process by which we activate the meanings for words in the internal lexicon. Phonological knowledge: knowledge of the phonological structure of words or how they are pronounced, knowledge of when two words are homophones and the experience of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. Syntactic knowledge: knowledge of the syntactic category or part of speech to which words belong, agrammatic patients frequently omit closed-classed words from their sentences while preserving open-class words somewhat better. Semantic knowledge: knowledge of word meaning.
