LINGUIST 2PS3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Hughlings Jackson, Medial Longitudinal Fissure, Psycholinguistics
12 Apr 2016
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Bottom up: perception starts at the sensory input, the stimulus. Top down: refers to how our brains make use of information that has already been brought into the brain by one or more of the sensory systems. Modular theory: sentence processing assumes that the stages involved in reading a sentence function independently in separate modules. These modulates have limited interaction with one another. Interactive theory: assumes that all available information contained within a sentence can be processed at any time. Under an interactive account, the semantics of a sentence can come into play early on in order to help determine the structure of a sentence. At every level of representation th century linguistics. Historical comparative (philology) the study of language in written historical source. Structural linguistics: looks at language as interconnected units. Descriptive linguistics: scientiic study of language, are presented through description of one language.
