ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Parsing, Speech Segmentation, Writing System
27 Oct 2020
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Keywords: comprehension, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, reading, discourse processing, whorf, linguistic relativity. Language is the use of an organized means of combining words in order to communicate with those around us. It also makes it possible to think about things and processes we currently cant see, hear, feel, touch, smell (sternberg, chapter 9) The structure of language: lexical decision task: deciding rapidly whether a string of letters forms a word, phonemes: different sounds for each language smallest unit of sound that makes a meaningful difference in a given language. Thus, the strong phonological model would predict that phonological processing will be mandatory/automatic: difference between consonants & vowels. ~ 3 : transformational rule: turn structures into other structures. Language must be transformed from raw input into meaningful representations. One of the first stages of this transformation is perceptual. The given part contains information that is familiar from the contex.
