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Describe psycholinguistics correct answers discipline devoted to understanding properties of human language and mechanisms responsible for language acquisition Describe mental lexicon correct answers all words (symbols) that allow for communication and comprehension - semantic memory - each r...

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PSY 310 – Final || with 100% Error-free Answers.
Describe psycholinguistics correct answers discipline devoted to understanding properties of
human language and mechanisms responsible for language acquisition

Describe mental lexicon correct answers all words (symbols) that allow for communication and
comprehension
- semantic memory
- each rep include NOT only meaning but also other info about the word

Describe Lexical access correct answers process by which a concept is activated within the
lexicon

Describe the feature of language: semanticity correct answers elements of language convey
meaning

Describe the feature of language: arbitrariness correct answers connections between linguistic
units and concepts or meanings referred to by those units entirely arbitrary
- ex: dog in English = woof; dog in Portuguese = ow ow

Describe the feature of language: displacement correct answers language allows us to talk about
times other than the immediate present

Describe the feature of language: prevarication correct answers ability that language allow us for
misinterpretation and deception

Describe the feature of language: reflectiveness correct answers ability that language allows us
for reflecting on language itself

Describe the feature of language: productivity correct answers infinite number of sentences can
be produced by applying rules of language

What are languistic universals? correct answers features and characteristics that are universally
true of all human languages
- kids acquire language easily

Describe phonology correct answers analysis of the sounds of language as they are articulated
and comprehend in speech

What are phonemes? correct answers basic sounds that compose a language
- smallest units of speech that have NO meaning

Describe morphology correct answers analysis of how we manipulate and change phonemes to
produce different words and word forms

What are morphemes? correct answers smallest units of language that have meaning

, - ex: un\happi\ness

What are free and bound morphemes? correct answers free: word morphemes; may stand alone

bound: prefix or suffix morphemes; need to accompany a free morpheme in order to have
meaning

How do we combine phonemes to produce morphemes? correct answers regular forms: system
of rules is implemented to make the necessary transformations
- changing word to past tense, plural, etc.

irregular forms: have an associative system whereby regular-irregular pairs are committed to
memory and used to retrieve each other
- semantic memories (knowledge concepts)

What is word frequency? correct answers finding that frequent words in the language are
processed more rapidly than infrequent words

What is lexical ambiguity? correct answers words or phrases that have more than one meaning
- ex: nail, pool

What is syntax? correct answers sentence structure (rules of grammar)

What are semantics? correct answers meaning of words and sentences

Describe transformational grammar (universal) correct answers Chomsky's theory of the
structure of language
- language is "hardwired"
- mechanism that allows the developing child to understand and produce language

What is pragmatics? correct answers social use of language

What are the 4 steps to language production? correct answers 1. conceptualization: decide what
we want to say
2. planning: organization of thoughts in terms of language
3. articulation: put linguistic plan in action
4. self-monitoring: keep track of what is being said and change it, if necessary

What is System 1 for Dual Process Views? correct answers NOT very controlled system to reach
conclusions
- unconscious, automatic, rapid, nonverbal, capacity free, shared with animals, evolutionary old,
emotional, instinctive
- ex: trying to eat healthy, so in between classes you don't think and just grab a salad at Grab &
Go
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