PSYC 365 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Syntactic Category, Categorical Perception, Deep Structure And Surface Structure
15 Jul 2016
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Categorical perception: issues in language comprehension due to categorization of phonemes. Coarticulation: issues in language comprehension due to overlapping of sounds in spoken language. Invariance problem: issue in language comprehension due to variation in how phonemes are produced. Morpheme: smallest units of a language that contain meaning. Broca"s patient, tan understood language, but couldn"t produce language; damage to left inferior frontal region of cortex. Broca"s aphasia: de cit in language production characterized by slow, effortful, and halting speech, lacking in most grammatical words. Wernicke"s patient relatively uent, syntactically intact production, but impaired comprehension; damage to posterior part of t lobe. Wenicke"s aphasia: de cit in language comprehension early 20c, behaviourism dominated language processing described with same principles of nonverbal behaviours. 1970s theories and traditions from a wide variety of areas (not just linguistic) 40,000-60,000 words mental lexicon: collection of the representations of these words in ltm lexical recognition and access:
