PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Tacit Knowledge, Cohort Model, Grammatical Gender
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Phonological knowledge: we experience the tip-of-the-tongue (tot) phenomenon when we are not quite successful at retrieving a particular word but can remember something about how it sounds. We can replace aging with words such as wealthy, poor, fat, solemn, etc: although the substitutions may change the meaning of a sentence, the sentence remains grammatical. Syntactic categories may be places into two groups: open-class words (constant words) Include noun, verb, adjective, and adverbs: there are more open-class words than closed-class words and therefore closed-class words are used over and over, closed-class words (function words) Include determiners, pronouns, propositions, conjunctions and interjections: agrammatism patients frequently omit closed-class words from their sentences while preserving open-class words somewhat better, in addition, they process closed-class words differently than individuals without neurological damage. It is possible to estimate that the average high school graduate knows about 45,000 words. There is a brown cow grazing in the field utterance is truthful.
