PSYC 3290 Chapter Notes -Preposition And Postposition, Denotation, Agrammatism
12 Feb 2013
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When we know a word, we knows its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic attributes. A word"s meaning includes both sense and reference: sense-- a word"s relationships with other words, reference-- the relationships between a word and an object or event in the world. The organization of word knowledge in permanent memory is called the internal lexicon. In a semantic network, words are represented as nodes and are connected via relations to other words in the network. Lexical access-- the process by which we activate our word knowledge. Influenced by the frequency of a word, its phonological and morphological attributes, whether it is ambiguous, and whether a semantically similar word has just been encountered. Of all the levels of language use, words are the most familiar. Retrieving information about words vs. storing words in memory. Internal lexicon-- the representation of words in permanent memory: properties associated with a word that are also stored in the internal lexicon:
