PSYB57H3 Chapter 9: Chapter 9

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Works when whole phrases are moved to the front. Lexical-insertion rule insertion of words into structures generated: transformational rule: turn structures in tree diagrams into other structures by the phrase structure rules. Understanding the meaning of a sentence requires: meaning of a sentence requires syntax, understanding of each word, understanding of the syntax, understanding the truth conditions. Participants restored the distortion to proper if the word was predictable to the context. No priming was involved for switch instruction evidence for: however, when time was separated in prime and target observed spreading theory of activation priming for expected pairs to be better than related items. Present people with passages some with ambiguous words and some did not unambiguous version included a word synonymous with the ambiguous word. Immediacy assumption technology innovations or biological mechanisms: content words got more fixation time than functions.