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| A single speaker produces phonemes differently, depending on the context of the phoneme (eg. Pot v. Spot; lip rounding in "tulip"; |
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| Phoneme Restoration Effect |
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| even though the * was a cough from the experimenter, Ps still "heard" the word |
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| People use visual info to interpret sounds. For example: Vision indicates "ga", soundtrack says "ba" ~~ most people hear "da" or "la" |
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| people don't perceive slight differences in phonemes |
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| no space between words ~ Cognitive division between words ~ __________ is a physical continuum |
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| Segmentation Errors of Perception |
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| Misperceive the segmentation of words (eg. Is he really? --> Isreali?) |
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| see a list of words… time passes, Ps take test. Recognize if string of letters forms a word |
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letters presented can be part of what Ps are listening to… eg. "hat" can come up, and Ps that heard the word Hat in auditory stimuli are faster to recognize "hat" as a word
**you get lexical access with mispronunciations IF the mispronunciations are the type that people make naturally** |
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| collection of sentences forming a paragraph or a collection of related paragraphs |
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| a set of rules that describes the legal sentences that can be constructed in a language ~~ A sentence composed of words that are very unlikely to follow one another can still be grammatical (Noam Chomsky - "colorless green ideas sleep furiously") |
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| Grammatical sentences are constructed word by word, by selecting the next word in a sentence based on the associations of the rest of the words in the sentence ~~ doesn't work because: 1: language has dependencies, which can span many words 2. dependencies can be embedded |
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| eg. Verbs must agree, number must agree. __________ can be embedded within one another |
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| use a hierarchical organization to grammar, not linear (as word chains did) |
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| specifies a limited number of sentence parts and a limited number of ways the parts can be combined |
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| a definition has that definition embedded in it |
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| Principle of Minimal Attachment |
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| If new word can be attached to an existing node in a phrase structure, go with that interpretation |
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| Language as it is really used |
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| exact words & phrases you read |
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| the meaning, represented as propositions |
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| knowledge integrated from both the text and prior knowledge |
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| parser is assigning each word to a phrase structure, but it later becomes clear that one of the assignments must have been wrong (eg. The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississippi.) |
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