Psycholinguistics
encoding the stream of sounds, identify words physically to access their meaning, apply knowledge of word rules, create a meaning based interpretation
What must a listener do to comprehend language?
if a sentence contains negative or passive voice
when are sentences more difficult to understand?
a challenging cognitive task that differs from understanding spoken language in many respects
what is reading?
basic unit of unspoken language
What is a phoneme?
the ease that someone can understand sentences
what does syntactic complexity influence?
quick eye jumps from one location to another
what are saccadic eye movements?
basic unit of meaning
What is a morpheme?
one word has multiple meanings
what is lexical ambiguity?
they occur between saccades, influenced by many physical and linguistic properties of text
what is a fixation and what does it influence?
study of morphemes
What is morphology?
an unfolding sentence that has possible grammatical interpretations
what is syntactical ambiguity?
argues that readers can sometimes recognize a word directly from printed letters, and convert them to a phonological code to access the word and its meaning
what is the dual-route approach?
the grammatical rules that govern how we organize words into sentences
what is syntax?
what does context do for a sentence?
what is the whole-language approach?