Speech Perception
What is the process of interpreting sounds as meaningful language?
What is speech perception?
The study of how context influences meaning in language.
What is pragmatics?
Understanding language beyond single sentences is called:
What is discourse processing?
The process by which children learn language over time.
What is language acquisition?
Recognizing written words quickly and efficiently is called:
What is word recognition?
This effect occurs when visual input (like lip movement) changes what we hear.
What is the McGurk effect?
When a sentence has more than one possible meaning, it is called this.
What is ambiguity?
This refers to connecting ideas across sentences to form a coherent story.
What is coherence?
Children’s ability to produce sentences they’ve never heard before shows:
What is productivity
Words that are seen more often are processed faster due to this effect.
What is the word frequency effect?
The ability to understand speech despite different accents, speeds, or voices.
What is perceptual constancy?
This type of ambiguity involves multiple meanings of a word.
What is lexical ambiguity?
These are mental connections we make to fill in missing information.
What are inferences?
Errors like “goed” instead of “went” demonstrate this learning pattern.
What is overregularization?
This effect occurs when related words are recognized more quickly.
What is semantic priming?
This phenomenon shows how we use context to interpret unclear sounds in speech.
What is phonemic restoration?
This type of ambiguity involves sentence structure.
What is syntactic ambiguity?
Prior knowledge structures that help us understand language.
What are schemas?
This theory suggests language learning is driven by general cognitive processes.
What is the usage-based approach?
The process of breaking words into meaningful units.
What is morphological processing?
This refers to how listeners divide continuous speech into separate words.
What is speech segmentation?
The intended meaning behind a speaker’s words is beyond the literal definition.
What is implicature?
This model suggests we build meaning step-by-step while reading or listening.
What is a constructive model of comprehension?
The idea that children learn language through interaction with others.
What is the social interactionist approach?
This model explains word recognition using multiple levels (like features, letters, words, etc).
What is the interactive activation model?