Terms and Concepts
to review: EXAM 1
Please note: This is not a complete set of terms and
concepts, but it does cover many of the issues that were discussed in the book
and in the lectures.
Linguistic concepts
Semantics
Syntax
Phonology
Pragmatics
Noam
Chomsky
Linguistic
Diversity
Linguistic
Universals
Discreteness,
arbitrariness, openness, duality of patterning
Phrase
structure
Morphology
Transformational
grammar
Deep/Surface
structure
Lexical
Function Grammar
Truth
Conditional Semantics/ Conceptual Semantics
Descriptive
and Explanatory adequacy
Government-Binding
theory (Universal Grammar)
Psychological mechanisms
Sensory
Store, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory
Tacit
(implicit) vs. explicit knowledge
Controlled
vs. automatic processing
Serial
vs. parallel Processing
Top
down vs. bottom up processing
Connectionist
(PDP) vs. modular views of language
Levels
of processing theory
Elaboration
Encoding Specificity Principle
Speech perception
Articulatory
phonetics
Acoustic
Phonetics
Formants
and Formant transitions
Context-conditioned
variation
Coarticulation
The
problem of invariance
Categorical
perception
The
role of semantic and syntactic features in voice perception
The
motor theory of speech perception
The
McGurk effect
The
TRACE model
Phonemic
Restoration
The
role of context in speech perception
Written text perception
Methods
for evaluating written word identification times
Dual-route
model
The
Word Superiority effect
The
interactive-activation model of word perception
Eyemovement
studies of reading (Saccades, regressions)