CSCD 2219 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Syntactic Category, Dogpile, Affix

• School: Temple University
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: CSCD 2219
• Professor: Retired

Document Summary

People can pronounce nonsense and unfamiliar words (sublexical route). People can pronounce words that are spelled idiosyncratically (lexical route). Visual symbol (letter) to concept (lexicon: cohort model. Access: activate a set of possible candidates (prelexical) Access: narrow the search to one candidate (prelexical) Integration: (integrate single candidate into semantic and syntactic context. Access of the lexicon is considered independent of other systems involved in processing language. A representation of the perceived stimulus is constructed. The representation is compared with representations in access files: orthographic, phonological, syntactic/semantic (for language production) Access files are organized in a series of bins (first syllable or letters) Position within the bins is organized by lexical frequency. Access files have pointers to meaning information in semantic memory. The root gives the listener access to the polymorphemic word e. g. dog, dogs, dogpile, dog-tired. Within the bins, words are organized according to surface frequency. Words with more frequent roots are access faster than words with less frequent roots.