PSYC 3290 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 Notes
15 Apr 2016
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Chapter 6 notes sentence comprehension and memory. Parsing is the process of assigning elements of surface structure to linguistic categories, because of limitations in processing resources we being to parse sentences as we see or hear each word in a sentence. Figurative language is language that literally means one thing but is taken to mean another. Introduction: comprehending a sentence involves attention to syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Parsing first step in the process of understanding a sentence is to assign elements of its surface structure to linguistic categories. Result of parsing is an internal representation of the linguistic relationships within a sentence usually in the form of a tree structure or phrase marker: the actor thanked the audience . Vp > (v thanked) (np- the audience) Late closure strategy is wherever possible, we prefer to attach new items to the current constituent, reduces the burden on working memory during parsing: tom said bill had taken the cleaning out yesterday.
