Psycholinguistics
What is psycholinguistics?
an interdisciplinary field that examines how people use language to communicate ideas.
What was Chomsky's most influential work on
syntax
The good enough approach is
we frequently process only part of a sentence.
the discipline that examines the underlying neurological structures and systems that support language and language‐related processes
neurolinguistics
Define phoneme
basic unit of spoken language
What did his work contribute to
the decline of behaviorism
the fact that a single word can have multiple meanings
lexical ambiguity
aphasia
difficulty communicating
Define morpheme
basic unit of meaning
What is represented by the words that are actually spoken or written
surface structure
The observation that when processing language, we do not wait until an entire sentence is spoken before making judgments about what it means.
incremental interpretation
What is aphasia typically caused by
damage to the brain caused by a stroke or a tumor
What does syntax refer to
the grammatical rules that govern how we organize words into sentences
What is the underlying, more abstract meaning of a sentence
deep structure
What are the findings on studies of negation
readers' understanding decreases as the number of negative terms increases.
two types of aphasia
Broca's and Wernicke's
The area of psycholinguistics that examines the meanings of words and sentences
semantics
What do people use to convert deep structure into a surface structure that they can speak or write.
transformational rules