PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Part Of Speech, Preposition And Postposition, Semantic Network
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Phonological knowledge phonological structure and pronounciation of words homophones are spelled differently but sound the same (bear and bare) Tot phenomenon happens when we can t quite retrieve the word but we remember something about how it sounds: we sometimes activate words by their sounds. Semantic knowledge sense and reference the relationship between words and things is termed reference, the things of the world are called referents this aspect of meaning is crucial to determikning if a gien utterance is truthful. Main idea regarding the org of the lexicon is in a semantic network comprised of elements: concepts or nodes, that are connected to eachother by relations. We know a large number of words that are related to one another in a large number of ways. With regard to contextual information, the semantic and syntactic structure of a sentence may influence activation for logogen these two routes work in parallel.
