Linguistics
It is the smallest linguistic unit that encodes meaning
What does a “morpheme” mean?
it is a word-finding deficit
What is a definition of "Anomia"?
it is defined as having difficulty recognizing something like objects, faces and sounds etc..
how do you define "Agnosia"?
it is one of the main articulatory properties of consonants that describes the state of the vocal folds
what is Voicing?
the condition of which the person produces unintended words or phonemes
What is “Paraphasia”?
it refers to the observation that a response to a target word is faster when it is preceded by a semantically related prime
what is semantic priming?
it is the articulatory property of vowels that describes whether the body of the tongue is advancing or retracting toward the teeth or backward toward the back of the throat
what is "backness"?
it a disordered motor control that affects articulation
what is "Apraxia"?
It is a task in which the participants need to make a decision about whether combinations of letters are words or not.
what is a Lexical-Decision Task?
the phenomenon in which adjacent sounds influence each other
what is coarticulation?
Type of aphasia showing difficulty constructing sentences
how do you define "Agrammatic"?
a technique that is used to investigate automatic activations during visual word recognition that involves a row of hash marks displayed for 500 ms
what is "masked priming"?
it is a phenomenon of perception in which an individual assigns boundaries to stimuli varying along a continuum
what is Categorical Perception?
it is a severe form of nonfluent aphasia, caused by damage to the left side of the brain, that affects receptive and expressive language skills
what is "global aphasia"?
one way to store words is by breaking them up into their parts during lexical access.
explain "full decomposition"