Introduction to Language
What is a phoneme?
The basic unit of spoken language
What is the definition of Psycholinguistics?
An interdisciplinary field that examines how people use language to communicate ideas
What is the study of Neurolinguistics?
The discipline that examines how the brain processes language.
What is a morpheme?
What is syntax?
Grammatical rules that govern how we organize words in sentences
Why is it challenging to locate what brain areas are responsible for language? (more than one answer)
-Language involves multiple cognitive processes.
-Language comprehension and production abilities occur on a speedy time scale
What is morphology?
Examines how we create words by combining morphemes
Knowledge about the rules that govern language
Event-related potential technique (ERP)
Sam told Eva, " I am not unwell," when she asked him if he was doing better after his cold. However, Eva looked at him confusedly, and he could tell she had never understood him. Why is Eva having trouble understanding Sam's sentence?
Sentences with negatives (e.g., not, reject, no, against) require more processing time than similar affirmative sentences. The more negatives a sentence has, the more mistakes we make in interpreting it.
What is semantics?
Examines meaning of words and sentences
Trouble producing speech
The study done by Ferreira and Coauthors (2022) found...
The active form of a sentence is easier to understand than the passive form.
e.g., I designed an experiment v.s. The experiment was designed by me
The psycholinguist Noam Chomsky's most influential work was on...
Semantics
The study done by January, Trueswll, and Thompson-Schill (2009) analyzed Broca's area. What were the findings of this study?
Broca's area is active during both the Stroop task and when processing sentences containing syntactic ambiguities