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Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lexeme, English Verbs, Phonological Word

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2 Feb 2023
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Words vs. concepts: word, minimal unit of meaningful speech that can stand alone (carries meaning, concept, representations of classes of objects or events. Independent of a verbal label: concepts may or may not have words associated with them, dual nature of words, phonological form: how it sounds, semantic representation: what it means, concept it denotes. Shapeshifters: lemma, most basic form of a word, lexeme, all possible forms a word can take, words change based on their usage, can occur in different forms (lexeme, example: girl, girl"s, girls" False morphemes: uncouth (*couth), unkempt (*kempt), disheveled (*sheveled, kempt/couth are not words, at least not in modern english, state-ment but not *apart-ment, revolting (*re-volt-ing) Semantic memory: part of our long-term memory system, our knowledge of concepts, explicit, encyclopedic knowledge. A model of semantic memory: knowledge of concepts is not just jumbled, but is connected based on similar things/encoded info.

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