Cognitive Final
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- What is Syntax?
- The rules underlying how we can combine words.
- Name the categories for words
- Determiners, Nouns, verbs and Prepositions.
- What is phrase structure?
- Knowing how categories of words go together
- Sentences are made of...
- NP + VP
- What does it mean for the rules to be recursive?
- They can repeat themselves
- Name some evidence for phrase structure
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we can regroup complete phrasal units
We can replace complete phrasal units - What is lexical Ambiguity?
- A word with multiple meanings (pupil)
- What is syntactic ambiguity?
- A case where multiple possible phrase structures could explain part of a structure.
- How do we investigate ambiguous sentences?
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self paced reading
eye monitoring - What are other factors guiding sentence processing?
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previous sentence context
Situational context
Semantics - What is previous sentence context?
- WE usually dont hear a sentence in isolation but as part of a discourse
- What is situational context?
- Use language to talk about things around us.
- How does semantics influence parsing?
- Meaning of words influence choice of the parse. Ex. The defendant examined by the lawyer was unreliable.
- What is Aphasia?
- Brain damage that leads to language problems
- WHat is Broca's aphasia?
- Damage to frontal lobe near the motor projection area. Language comprehension is unaffected but production is "agrammatic" Produce nouns and verbs but few function words.
- What is Wernickies aphasia?
- Damage to temporal lobe. Language comprehension is gone. Language produciton fluent but makes no sense.