Vocabulary
The study of the cognitive processes involved in: language production, language comprehension, and naturalistic communication.
What is Psycholinguistics?
This word refers to the observation that when processing language, we do not wait until in entire sentence is spoken or read before making judgments about what it means.
What is Incremental interpretation?
This method measures sentence processing and used researchers can assess which components of a sentence are more difficult to process than others.
What is On-line Language Processing Measures?
This approach argues that learning about grammatical rules, knowledge of grammar is something that people are born with.
What is Chomsky's Approach?
The small distinct sound units
What is Phonemes?
This word refers to the fact that a single word can have multiple meanings
What is Lexical ambiguity?
This task participants see a series of dashes on a screen that mask each word and graphs average reaction times elicited by each word/region of a sentence.
What is Self-Paced Reading Task?
This approach emphasized that the function of human language in everyday life is to communicate meaning to other individuals.
What is Cognitive-Functional Approach?
The smallest unit that carries meaning that is made up of phonemes.
What is Morphemes?
This word points out a phenomenon where sentence structure is ambiguous, especially if it contains no punctuation.
What is Syntactic Ambiguity?
A language comprehension approach that argues that we frequently process only part of a sentence.
What is The Good Enough Approach?
This refers to the rules of grammar which dictate how we organize our words into sentences.
Syntax
The underlying, more abstract meaning of a sentence
What is deep structure?