PSYC 3260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Temporal Lobe, Garden Path Sentence, Parsing
8 Jul 2016
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Chapter 11: language learned through reinforcement and learning. Nativist theory: chomsky: children produce sentenced they"ve never heard before, thus not just learned, language innate, genetically programmed to communicate, underlying basis of communication is similar across cultures, important in cognitive revolution and changing field of psycholinguistics. Thus context needed for understanding sounds of words. Lexicon: similar to a dictionary, this is our knowledge and meaning of a word, it"s sound and used in relation with others (like a dictionary that lists definition, sound of word, synonym, etc) Phonemic restoration effect: filling in of a missing phoneme. Filling this in would be a phonemic restoration effect. Speech segmentation: still perceiving individual spoken words as coherent even though there are no pauses between words in sentences: because context, meaning, syntactic rules, etc. Word superiority effect: letters easier to recognize when in a word compared to when alone or in a nonword.
