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)