Morphology
A theory of language processing in which all individual words are saved in a mental lexicon.
What is the storage theory?
The linguistic 'level' that this model is about.
What is syntax?
The type of impairment traditionally ascribed to Broca's aphasics.
What is production impairment?
The EEG component related to lexical access and affected by, e.g., semantic surprisal.
What is the N400?
A paradigm in which two words are presented to a participant but only one word is consciously perceived due to very brief intervals between the two words.
What is the masked priming paradigm?
A theory in which language processing relies on morphemes to compute words.
What is the decomposition theory?
The branch of studies that Friederici's model is based on.
What are violation studies?
The two Brodmann areas traditionally considered Broca's area.
What are BA 44 and 45?
The MEG component related to lexical access and affected by, e.g., semantic surprisal.
What is the M350?
Another term for pseudowords.
What is Jabberwocky?
Rastle et al. (2000) found this to be the type of relation between morphologically related words.
What is an identity relation?
The EEG component that is sensitive to case and agreement violations.
What is the LAN (left anterior negativity)?
The role traditionally ascribed to Broca's area in the Classic Model of Language.
What is the locus of articulatory representations?
The type of basic composition that the LATL is sensitive to.
What is conceptual composition?
Chomsky's by-now-classical grammatically correct but nonsensical sentence.
What is "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"?
The electrophysiological component in which we see the first evidence of morphological processing.
What is the M170?
The type of violation reflected by the P600.
What are reanalyses of sentences in, e.g., garden path sentences?
The type of sentences contrasted by Stromswold et al. in their classic study implicating Broca's area in syntactic processing.
What are center-embedded and right-branching sentences (alt: object and subject relatives)?
The approximate timing of LATL activity during basic composition (for comprehension).
What is 200-250ms?
The interval between the onset of a prime and a target.
What is Stimulus Onset Asynchrony?
The term used to describe results from behavioral studies finding similar processing of word pairs with true morphological relations (cleaner-CLEAN) and fake morphological relations (corner-CORN), which suggest that we access morphological forms before meaning.
What is early decomposition?
This is the timing of the ELAN (early left anterior negativity).
What is 150-200ms?
A type of subconscious 'activity' that may be an alternative explanation for increased activity in Broca's area when comprehending syntactically complex sentences.
What is articulatory rehearsal?
The approximate timing of vmPFC activity during basic composition (for comprehension).
What is approx. 400 ms?
The type of semantic reinterpretation that reveals differences in vmPFC activity, e.g., during the processing of sentences like "The author began the article".
What is coercion?