PSY 452 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Psycholinguistics, Eye Tracking
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Psycholinguistics: an interdisciplinary field that examines how people use language to communicate. Terminology of language: phoneme: basic unit of spoken language, morpheme: basic unit of meaning. Surface structure: represented by the words that are actually spoken or written. Deep structure: more abstract meaning of a sentence. Transformational rules: convert deep structure into surface structure that can be spoken or written. Chomsky pointed out that two sentences may have identical surface structure but different deep structure. Incremental interpretation: observation that when processing language we do not wait until the entire sentence is spoke before making judgments about what it means. Lexical ambiguity: the fact that a single word can have multiple meanings: research supports that people are likely to consider one particular meaning a lexically ambiguous word, 1. If that meaning is more common that the alternative meaning: 2. If it appear in a sentence and the rest of the sentence is consistent with that meaning.
