Ch. 13
Linguistics 401 with Johnson at Michigan State University
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dependent variables
in an experiment, the behavior or event thta is measured
event-realted potentials (ERPs)
a measurement of electrical activity int he brain that is correalted with the presentation of particlar stimulus events
experimental paradigms
a method of investigation that involves a particular way of presenting stimuli and a particular way of measuring responses
field technique
a method of study that does not involve manipulation and control of factors in a laboratory, but rather involves observing phenomena as they occur
frequency effect
the common experimental finding that words that occur mroe frequently in a language are processed mroe quickly and mroe accurately
lexical decision
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
parsing
the procedure through which speech or text is analyzed by assigning categories to words and assigning structure to strings of words
prime
in a priming experiment, this is the stimulus that is expected to affect a subjects response accuracy and response latency to the following stimulus
priming
a situation in which the presentation of a stimulus makes it easier to process the following stimulus
priming effect
in a priming experiment, this is the extent to which a priming stimulus facilitates the processing of the next stimulus
psycholinguistics
the study of the mental processes and representations involved in language comprehensiona nd production
regressive saccades
eye movements in which the eyes dart backward to a section of text that has been previously read
response accuracy
the correctness of a subject's responses to particular stimuli in an experiment
response latency
the amoint of time taken by a subject in an experiment to respond to a stimulus
saccades
the quick and uneven movements of the eyes during reading
Spoonerism
a type of speech error, in which words or sounds are rearranged with often humorous results
target
the stimulus to which a subject must respond and for which response accuracy and rsponse latency are measured
tip-of-the-tongue phenomena
instances of temporary inability to access a word int he mental lexicon
bottom-up processing
a type of mental processing in which more complex representations are accessed through simpler cnostituent representations
cohort
a set of possible words in a psycholinguistic model of spoken-word recognition
cohort model
a model of spoken-word recognition according to whcih word recognition proceeds by isolating a target word from a set of words taht share initial segments
garden path sentences
a sentence that is difficult to process and interpret because its structure biases sentence parsing toward an incorrect analysis
late closure
a parsing principle that claims that in sentence cmprehension humans prefer to attach new words to the clasue currently being processed
minimal attachment
a proposed parsing principle that claims that in sentence comprehension, humans tend to attach incoming material into phrase structure using the fewest nodes possible
module
a unit of processing that is relatively autonomous from other processing units
morphological parsing
the computational process in the brain that analyzes constituent mrophemes fo a word
postlexical decomposition
the process by which the constituents of a multimorphemic word are activated int he brain through the representation ofthe whole lexical item
prelexical decomposition
the commputational process by which the individual morphemes of a multimorphemic word are scanned and isolated int he brain
sentence ambiguity
the possibility that a sentence can be interpreted in mreo than oen way
syntactic parser
the theoretical construct that acccounds for the human ability to assign grammatical categories and hierarchical structure to elements in a stream of language input
top-down processing
a type of mental processing using a set of expectations to guide phonetic processing and word recognition
connectionist models
a psycholinguistic theory built aronud the claim that the mind can be best modeled by reference to complex associations of simple units that approximate neurons
dual-route models
a psycholinguistic theory built around the claim that a particular type of langauge processing can be accomplished in more than one manner
nodes
large association of simple units in the mind
parallel processing model
a psycholinguistic theory built around the claim that phonological, lexical, and syntactic processses are carried out simultaneously
psycholinguistic model
a schematic representation based one xperimental results of how language is processed mentally
serial processing model
a psycholinguistic theory built around the claim that language processing proceeds in a step-by[step manner
single-route models
a psycholinguistic theory built around the claim that a particular type of language processing is accomplished in oen manner only
symbolic models
a psycholinguistic theory built around the claim that models of lingusitic knwledge make reference to rules and representations consisting of symbols
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Textbook: Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction
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