PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Final Guide: Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Function Word
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Occasional exception to arbitrary: kiki and bouba demo. Language levels: phonemes: different in different languages, morphemes, words, phrases, sentences. Phrase structures, same words can sometimes be grouped into phrases differently which changes meaning. Role of vision in speech perception, mcgurk effect, Language processing is predictive: n400, erp technique, cloze probability. Lexical access: context effects and swinney priming experiment. Active voice easier than passive voice sentences for semantically reversible sentences, but not semantically irreversible sentences, suggests interaction of syntax & semantics during comprehension. The neurobiology of language: broca"s aphasia, wernicke"s aphasia, the neural pathway for repeating a heard word (auditory cortex to wernicke"s area to broca"s area to motor cortex) Learn language without negative feedback about grammar/pronunciation; suggests linguistic universals. Language development: phonemes (can discriminate all phonemes from all languages during. 1st year, gradually lose non-relevant discriminations), motherese (adults help kids with high pitch, slow rate, exaggerated intonation).
