PSY 211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lexicon, Phoneme, Phonetics
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Had participants listen to a passage and then they were presented with text on a screen and decide if it was a word or non-word. Condition 1: lexical decision immediately after ambiguous word. Ant (900) = spy (900) < sew (960) Condition 2: lexical decision delayed from time of ambiguous word. Reaction times to word presented at time x. Ant (795) < spy (849) = sew (848) After time passes, primes only the relevant meaning. Gets primed after a certain amount of time. Dumb retrieval - all possible meanings of a word are retrieved from the lexicon, which is a mental dictionary. Understanding the different levels of languages helps to understand the rules and specific patterns and errors people make in speech. Hierarchical structure - units of language that are not defined by letters but by sound and meaning. Phoneme > morpheme > word > phrase > sentence > semantics. Phoneme - lowest level of speech sounds, smallest unit.
