Chapter 9 Language

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What is Language? -organized way to combine words to communicate; exchange of thoughts/feelings -unique to humans -communication syst that is learned instead of inherited biologically
Non-verbal Communication -form of communication involving sending and receiving visual clues (body lang, distance, physical environment/appearance, voice)
Psycholinguistics psychology of language as it interacts (production and comprehension) with the human mind
Four Areas in Psycholinguistics -Linguistics: lang structure and change -Neurolinguistics: relationships among the brain, cognition & lang -Sociolinguistics: relationship b/w social behavior and lang -Computation linguistics: lang via computational methods
Properties of Language -communicative property -arbitrarily symbolic -regularly structured -structured at multiple levels -generative/productive -dynamic
Communicative property language permits us to communicate with one or more people who share our language
Arbitrarily symbolic -creates arbitrary relationship between a symbol and what is represents -words don't have to sound or look like what they describe -Principle of conventionality: meaning of words are determined by conventions -Principle of contrast: different words have different meanings -regularly structured
Regularly structured -has a structure -only particularly patterned arrangements of symbols have meaning, and different arrangements yield different meanings
Structured at multiple levels structure of lang can by analyzed at more than one level (i.e. sounds, words, sentences, paragraphs/texts)
Generative property using rules of language can create an unlimited number of new utterances (vast ability to produce lang creatively)
Dynamic Constantly evolve -allows for new developments w/ creation of new words/ideas (blog, spam, Shut up!)
Basic Components of Words and Sentences -Phonemes -Morphemes -Syntax
Phonemes -smallest unit of speech --> sounds of lang -diff lang use different sets of phonemes
Morpheme -smallest unit that denotes meaning (root words, prefixes, suffices) -Morphology: study of word structure -Lexicon: entire set of morphemes for a language -Content morphemes: convey bulk of meaning -Function morphemes: add detail and nuance to meaning
Syntax -rules used to put words together for a sentence (sentence = noun phrase[NP] + verb phrase[SP]) [NP] = noun and relevant descriptors [VP] = at least one verb and possibly objects it acts upon
3 Approaches to Language Comprehension -Speech perception -Grammatical structure approach (assign meaning to words) -Discourse macro-level analysis (make sense of what we hear/read)
Understanding Words (hear sounds) -Coarticulation: pronouncing more than one sound at same time; 1+ phonemes begin while other phonemes still being produced -Speech segmentation: put sounds together to form words -comprehend phrases of another's sentences; understand ideas being conveyed;individual differences in speech pronounciation
View of Speech Perception as Ordinary -sometimes speech sounds don't = perception -cog and contextual factors may influence perception of sensed signal -phonetic-restoration effect: integrating what we know with what we hear when we perceive speech...using context of other words --> trouble identifying when no context provided
Coordinating Visual and Auditory Perception McGurk Effect -lip movements to one sound "ba"; soundtrack indicates "da": brain processes both "tha" Factors that reduce McGurk effect -right side of mouth was covered -disruption of superior temporal sulcus (STS) via TMS movements of speaker's vocal tract provide listener w/ phonetic info --> disrupting with TMS made more difficult to distinguish speech sounds involve lips/tip of tongue
Understanding Meaning: Semantics -Denotation: definition of word -Connotation: additional nuances of word meaning (emotional, social, cultural) -How do we understand? concepts, words are arbitrary symbols for concepts -How do we retrieve? perceptual features and function to identify
Understanding Sentences: Syntax -grammatical arrangement (structure) of words into a sentence/phrase provides meaning -for pyscholinguists: study of lang in terms of noticing regular patterns *descriptive grammar: describe structures, fxns, and relationships of words in lang *prescriptive grammar: the 'correct' way to structure sentences
Syntactical Priming -exposure to particular syntactic structure leads speakers to reproduce the same structure in subsequent speech -Ex. Heard "The cat is being chased by the dog", Say "The mouse is being chased by the cat" vs "The cat is chasing the mouse"
Syntactic Ambiguity -more than one possible structure, more than one meaning -Temporary ambiguity: initial words of a sentence can lead to more than one meaning
Speech Errors -switch nouns for nouns, verbs for verbs, prepositions for prepositions -switch these things, but structure remains the same
Analyzing Sentences: Phrase-Structure Grammar -Parsing: functional components of sentences --> use syntax to construct grammatical sequences of parsed components -Phrase-structure rules: rules governing sequence of words; linguists use tree diagrams *tree diagrams help reveal interrelationships of syntactical classes w/in phrase structures of sentences
3 Processes important for Reading (recognize the letters) -Perceptual -Lexical -Comprehension
Perceptual Issues in Reading -Lexical Processes: used to identify letters and words; activate relevant info in memory about these words -Comprehension processes: used to make sense of the text as a whole
Lexical Processes -when reading, eyes move in saccades (rapid sequential movements as they fixate on successive clumps of text)
Fixations and Reading Speed -fixations are like a series of 'snapshots' of variable length -readers fixate for a longer time on: longer words, less familiar words, last word of a sentence -visual span of fixations: about 4 characters to left of fixation point, 14-15 characters to right of it
Lexical Access -ability to retrieve phonemes from LTM -Bottom-up processing: recognizing letters and words -Top-down processing: meaning of words, expectations and prior knowledge about material
When Reading is a Problem Several different processes may be impaired with dyslexia -phonological awareness -phonological reading -phonological coding in a working memory -lexical access: ability to retrieve phonemes from LTM
Phonological Awareness -awareness of the sound structure of spoken lang; recognizing diff sounds that make up word *phoneme-deletion task: say "goat" with "-t" *phoneme counting: how many different sounds are there in the word "fish" *problems attaching sounds to letters: cannot attach "cuh" to letter "c" in word "cat"
Phonological Reading - involves reading words in isolation *"word decoding" or "word attack" *difficulty telling if 2 words rhyme/start with same sound *difficulty in sounding out entire word and then repeating the sounds rapidly so that can be identified
Phonological Coding -difficulty storing phonemes in WM *remembering string of phonemes that are sometimes confusing *comparing WM for confusable (t,b,z,v,g) vs nonconfusable phonemes (o,x,r,y,q)
Demonstration of Reicher -row of x letters shown, then word is shown -next shown 2 words with a letter shown above and below -need to guess which of two letters actually appeared in appropriate location
Word Superiority Effect -letters more easily recognized in context of a word than alone and after processing a sentence -demonstrates importance of interaction between top-down and bottom-up processing
Understanding Conversations & Essays: Discourse -involves units of lang larger than individual sentences (in conversations, lectures, stories, essays, and textbooks) *research on how we obtain meaning from stories, lectures, and reading *identify processes underlying reading and factors that lead to successful comprehension
Effects of Expectations in Reading -understanding at each pt in discourse was influenced by existing knowledge and expectations based on own experiences within particular context
Comprehending Known Words: Retrieving Words Meaning from Memory -semantic encoding: process by which we translate sensory info (written words) into meaningful rep --> need vocab --> strong relationship b/w vocab and ability of students to construct meaning -acquire vocab, comprehend ideas, create mental models, impact of context on comprehension & POV on comprehension
Comprehending Unknown Words: Deriving Meaning from Context -readers acquire vocab in variety of ways *wide reading, use of context & dictionary, direct instruction
Comprehending Ideas: Propositional Representations -Kintsch's model -use propositions in WM *don't memorize exact words, try to get fundamental idea from words, store idea in simplified form in WM -Macropropositions: thematically crucial propositions -Macrostructure: overarching thematic structure of the passage of text
Representing Text in Mental Models -additional concepts that are added to explicit concepts in text -bridging interference: interference that is necessary to connect 2 sentences; text requires inferences leads to longer processing time -controversy across text comprehension models: how many and what type of inferences are made, minimalist positions posits that only 2 classes of inferences occur (based on easily available info, required for local coherence), constructivist models of text comprehension propose there are many potential inferences that are automatically generated during reading
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