PS366 Study Guide - Lexical Functional Grammar, Creole Language, Transformational Grammar
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Similarities and differences in processing and using language, whether word order rules are. Language: identifies generations, binds groups, exclude those who aren"t peers, gender differences. Psycholoinguistics: study of psychological factors that influence language use innate or learned. Comprehension: how we perceive written language and speech. Tacit knowledge: implicit, performing something we"re not aware of how we do it. Explicit knowledge: knowledge of processes or mechanisms underlying acts, consciously aware of this. Garden path sentences: begin leading you it is about one thing but at the end it is about another, shows us cognitive factors influence language, the relationship between words causes us to choose which meaning we should assume. Indirect requests: can you open the door? rearranged so it is less threatening, pragmatic knowledge shows us this request is more likely to be granted. Aphasia: loss of language, shows what parts of language are independent of one another.
