PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Agrammatism, Lexeme, Lexicon
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Introduction psycholinguists refer to the representation of words in permanent memory as our internal lexicon. Words may be accessed several ways perception of the word (written, oral) activate the meaning through other words. We have knowledge of the phonological structure or pronunciation of words. We know when two words are homophones tip of the tongue phenomenon. Morphological knowledge identifying vocabulary size depends on the morphology of language. In can change the pronunciation of the word as well as the syntactical category inflectional morphemes must be applied before derivational morphemes. Words that have no real referent unicorn. May refer to objects in other hypothetical roles this process plays a huge role in imaginary play/literature. When two words or expressions mean the same thing coordination. Meronymy pertains to the parts of the referent object back, legs would be meronyms of chair. Word association test is used to see how sense relations correspond to how people use words.
