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| the study of the mental processes and representations involved in language comprehension and production |
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| spoonerisms (slips of tongue) |
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| a type of speech error, named after Reverend Williams A. Spooner, in which words or sounds are rearranged with often humorous results |
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| a method of investigation that involves a particular way of presenting stimuli and a particular way of measuring responses |
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| a method of study that does not involve manipulation and control of factors in a laboratory, but rather involves observing phenomena as they occur |
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| an experimental paradigm in which a person sees or hears a stimulus and must judge as quickly as possible whether or not that stimulus is a word of his or her language |
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| a situation in which the presentation of a stimulus has a positive effect on the ease with which a subsequent related stimulus is processed |
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| in an experiment, the behaviour or even that is measured in order to gauge the effect of an independent variable |
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| the correctness of a subject's responses to particular stimuli provided in an experiment |
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| the amount of time taken by a subject in an experiment to respond to a stimulus |
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| the common experimental finding that words that occur more commonly in a language are processed more quickly and more accurately |
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| in a priming experiment, this is the stimulus that is expected to affect a subject's response accuracy and latency to a subsequent stimulus (called the target) |
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| in a priming experiment, this is the stimulus to which a subject must respond and for which response accuracy and latency are measured |
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| in a priming experiment, this is the extent to which a priming stimulus facilitates the processing of a target stimulus |
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| the mechanism through which a listener or reader processes linguistic input by assigning categories to lexical elements and hierarchical structure to strings of lexical elements |
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| a type of processing in which the activation of higher mental representations (e.g. words) occurs through the activation of simpler constituent representations (e.g., phonemes) |
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| a type of processing using a set of expectations to guide phonetic processing and word recognition |
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| a model of spoken word recognition that claims that word recognition proceeds by isolating a target word from a cohort of words that share initial segments |
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| post-lexical decomposition |
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| the activation of the constituents of a multimorphemic word through the representation of the whole lexical item |
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| pre-lexical decomposition |
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| the activation of a word's constituent morphemes during comprehension |
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| a computational process that activates the morphemes making up an utterance |
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| the theoretical construct that accounts for the human ability to assign grammatical categories and hierarchical structure in a stream of language input |
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| a proposed parsing principle that claims that, in sentence comprehension, humans tend to attach incoming material into phrase structure using the fewest nodes possible |
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| a proposed parsing principle that claims that, in sentence comprehension, humans tend to attach incoming material into the phrase or clause currently being parsed |
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| parallel processing model |
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| a psycholinguistic theory built around the claim that phonological, lexical, and syntactic processes are carried out simultaneously |
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| a psycholinguistic theory built around the claim that language processing proceeds in a step by step manner |
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| a psycholinguistic theory build around the claim that a particular type of language processing is accomplished in one manner only |
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| a psycholinguistic theory built around the claim that models of linguistic knowledge make reference to rules and representations consisting of symbols, such as phonemes, words, syntactic category labels, and so forth |
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| a psycholinguistic theory built around the claim that a particular type of language processing is accomplished in two or more manners |
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| a psycholinguistic theory built around the claim that the mind can be best modelled by reference to complex associations of simple units that approximate neurons |
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| Reaction Time and Accuracy |
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| responses for time and accuracy during a picture-naming task |
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| the difference in reaction times of non switch-trials from switch trials in each language |
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| the difference of reaction times for trials from the Simon Task to measure inhibitory control. The greater the Simon Effect, the less inhibitory control |
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| going from one language to another in the picture naming task |
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