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| the question of how listeners rapidly decipher the structure of sentences and gain access to the meaning of the sentence as a whole |
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| hierarchical network model |
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concepts are organized in our mind as a pyramid of concepts
Emphasizes cognitive economy!
Doesn't work for abstract concepts |
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| spreading activation network model |
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association network
Concepts are associated and connected
looks like an electrical grid
accounts for multiple access routes |
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no strict one to one mapping of words and meanings
Multiple words can have the same meaning, and one word can have multiple meanings
*we don't usually encounter words in isolation |
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| surface structure of a sentence |
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| is represented by the words you actually hear spoken or read, the specific words we have chosen to convey the meaning of what it is we wish to say |
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| deep structure to the sentence |
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| the assignment of words in a sentence to their relevant linguistic categories |
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the rules that give a language structure
To gain understanding:
must have same set of rules and same context |
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| speaker's knowledge of lang. |
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| how we can understand lang. even if it's fragmented |
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