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Cognitive Psychology Chapter IX Language I
This deck covers key concepts from Chapter IX on language in cognitive psychology, including definitions, principles, and structures of language.
Define psycholinguistics!
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Key Terms
Term
Definition
Define psycholinguistics!
Psycholinguistics is the psychology of our language as it interacts with our minds.
Define language:
Language is the use of an organized means of combining words in order to communicate.
Six properties that are distinctive for language:
1. Communicative 2. Arbitrarily symbolic 3. Regularly structured 4. Structured at multiple levels 5. Generative / productive 6. Dynamic (constantly ev...
Two principles underlying word meanings:
principle of - conventionality - contrast (Clark, Diesendruck)
Principle of conventionality:
Words mean what conventions make them mean.
Principle of contrast:
Different words have different meanings.
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Define psycholinguistics! | Psycholinguistics is the psychology of our language as it interacts with our minds. |
Define language: | Language is the use of an organized means of combining words in order to communicate. |
Six properties that are distinctive for language: | 1. Communicative 2. Arbitrarily symbolic 3. Regularly structured 4. Structured at multiple levels 5. Generative / productive 6. Dynamic (constantly evolving) |
Two principles underlying word meanings: | principle of - conventionality - contrast (Clark, Diesendruck) |
Principle of conventionality: | Words mean what conventions make them mean. |
Principle of contrast: | Different words have different meanings. |
The main purpose of language: | Language facilitates our being able to construct a mental representation of a situation that enables us to understand and communicate aut it (Budwig 1995, Zwaan, Radvansky 1998) |
Verbal comprehension is … | … the receptive ability to comprehend written and spoken linguistic input. |
Verbal fluency is … | … the expressive ability to produce linguistic output. |
What is the smallest unit of speech sound? | a phone |
What is a phoneme? | A phone that can be used to distinguish one utterance in a given language from another. |
Four similar words showing the importance of four phonemes: | sit, sat, fit, fat |
Phones that are not neccesary to distinguish words in a given language are sometimes referred to as … | … allophones. |
What are allophones? | Sound variants of the same phoneme. |
Phonemics is … | … the study of the particular phonemes of a language. |
Phonetics is … | … the study of how to produce or combine speech sounds or to represent them with written symbols. |
What’s on the next higher level after the phoneme? | The morpheme. |
What is a morpheme? | The smallest unit that denotes meaning within a particular language. |
Suffixes and prefixes together are … | … affixes. |
How many morphemes does the word “recharge” consist of? | 2 |
Two kinds of morphemes: | 1. Content morphemes 2. Function morphemes |
What do function morphemes do? | • add nuances to content morphemes • help the content morpheme fit the grammatical context |
Examples for function morphemes: | and, the, -ed |
What is the lexicon? | The entire set of morphemes in a given language. |
Syntax refers to … | … the way in which users of a particular language put words together to form languages. |
Two parts every sentence must have: | noun phrase | - verb phrase |
Semantics is … | … the study of meaning in a language. |
"Discourse" encompasses language … | … use at the level beyond the sentence (conversations, paragraphs, stories etc.). |