Terminology
This precedes E (expressive) language during development.
What is receptive language?
Place of articulation, manner of articulation, and voicing
What are the three characteristics of consonant production?
This ERP peak occurs during an electroencephalography when an anomaly is detected regarding [word] order in an utterance or sound.
What is a P600 peak?
When one language is learned before another as a young child.
What is sequential bilingualism?
Another way of describing inhibited word recognition.
What is competition?
A research-based method to link behavior to representations.
What is QALMRI? (Spell it out)
When different sounds are thought to be the same sound
What is perceptual invariance?
The myelinated pathway in the brain responsible for processing word meaning and [simpler] syntax.
What is the ventral stream?
Cognitive control, (possible) improved pitch perception and understanding of syntax
What are the benefits of bilingualism?
An example of a pair of homophones (please spell).
What are _____? (e.g., peer, pier)
The goal of psycholinguistics is to understand how this happens.
What is the speech communication chain?
The idea that language can influence a speaker's view of the world; i.e., linguistic relativity
What is the Whorf hypothesis?
Wernicke's area is near this cortex in the brain.
What is the primary auditory cortex?
More technical than slang.
Frequency of occurrence, age when word was first acquired, and length of a word.
What are factors that affect word recognition time?
The camp that believes humans have supercomputer brains that are capable of learning language.
What is the anti-nativist camp?
The understanding of this phonology concept is acquired by age 9 months.
What are phonotactic contraints?
This type of scan also works by finding hemodynamic changes, but involves radiation.
What is a PET scan (positron emission tomography)?
Two or more of these are activated in a word-finding bilingual.
What is a lexicon?
The word out of the following set that has the highest phonetic neighborhood density: bee, orange, swing, harp.
What is bee?
The properties of human language.
What are 1) language reflects underlying intentions and 2) language is made of arbitrary representations bound by rules.
Variants of the same phoneme.
What are allophones?
fMRI and ERPs have shown us language is organized these two ways in the brain.
What are spatial organization and temporal organization?
Illegal in the U.S. and based on how someone sounds when they speak.
What is dialect discrimination?
The uniqueness point for the word rotund.
What is rotu-?