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What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
- Language is influenced by thought
- Thought is influenced by language
- Language influences thought (correct)
- Thought influences language
What is the primary purpose of syntactic priming in conversations?
What is the primary purpose of syntactic priming in conversations?
- To introduce new grammatical constructions
- To complicate the understanding of conversations
- To reduce computational load in conversation (correct)
- To create linguistic diversity
How do music and language differ in evoking emotions?
How do music and language differ in evoking emotions?
- Music evokes emotions through sounds without meaning, while language evokes emotions through meaning and prosody (correct)
- Music and language both evoke emotions through meaning and prosody
- Music evokes emotions through meaning and prosody, while language evokes emotions through sounds without meaning
- Music and language both evoke emotions through sounds without meaning
What is the impact of Broca's aphasia on syntactic language and music tasks?
What is the impact of Broca's aphasia on syntactic language and music tasks?
What is the primary purpose of common ground in conversations?
What is the primary purpose of common ground in conversations?
What does the coordination between speakers in conversations include?
What does the coordination between speakers in conversations include?
What is language?
What is language?
How does animal communication differ from human language?
How does animal communication differ from human language?
What makes it possible to create new and unique sentences in human language?
What makes it possible to create new and unique sentences in human language?
Why has language been called 'universal'?
Why has language been called 'universal'?
What is the timeline of language evolution in Homo sapiens?
What is the timeline of language evolution in Homo sapiens?
What does the increase in brain size before the development of the vocal tract suggest?
What does the increase in brain size before the development of the vocal tract suggest?
What is biased dominance in relation to word meanings?
What is biased dominance in relation to word meanings?
Which brain areas are associated with processing syntax and semantics according to evidence from brain-damaged patients?
Which brain areas are associated with processing syntax and semantics according to evidence from brain-damaged patients?
What is the N400 response associated with in sentence processing?
What is the N400 response associated with in sentence processing?
What is parsing in the context of sentence processing?
What is parsing in the context of sentence processing?
What does the interactionist approach emphasize in sentence processing?
What does the interactionist approach emphasize in sentence processing?
What are garden path sentences an illustration of in sentence processing?
What are garden path sentences an illustration of in sentence processing?
What is the relationship between social group size and brain size according to Dunbar (1998)?
What is the relationship between social group size and brain size according to Dunbar (1998)?
According to psycholinguistics, what does the study of comprehension, speech production, representation, and acquisition involve?
According to psycholinguistics, what does the study of comprehension, speech production, representation, and acquisition involve?
What is the approximate number of words that adults typically understand and store in their lexicon?
What is the approximate number of words that adults typically understand and store in their lexicon?
What are the smallest units of language according to the text?
What are the smallest units of language according to the text?
How do accents, speech speeds, and phonemic restoration affect word perception?
How do accents, speech speeds, and phonemic restoration affect word perception?
What does the Word Superiority Effect demonstrate about word recognition?
What does the Word Superiority Effect demonstrate about word recognition?
What contributes to creating coherence in text?
What contributes to creating coherence in text?
What does the given-new contract in conversations involve?
What does the given-new contract in conversations involve?
What does the visual world paradigm involve?
What does the visual world paradigm involve?
What influences language comprehension?
What influences language comprehension?
What is a situation model in text comprehension?
What is a situation model in text comprehension?
How do well-written stories require readers to create coherence?
How do well-written stories require readers to create coherence?
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Study Notes
Understanding Language and Comprehension
- Language comprehension is influenced by semantics, as well as the visual scene being observed.
- The visual world paradigm involves studying how people process information while observing a visual scene.
- Ambiguity in sentences can lead to changes in eye movements as the brain revises its interpretation.
- Our knowledge of the environment often helps us predict and complete sentences beyond just syntax and semantics.
- Experience with sentence constructions influences how we predict sentence organization.
- Well-written stories require readers to use relationships between sentences to create a coherent story and make inferences.
- Inferences are used to create connections between different parts of a story, leading to coherence.
- Anaphoric, instrumental, and causal inferences all contribute to creating coherence in text.
- A situation model is a mental representation of what a text is about, representing events as if experiencing the situation.
- Mental representations as simulations involve simulating the perceptual and motor characteristics of objects and actions in a story.
- Conversations involve the given-new contract, where speakers provide given information that the listener already knows and new information.
- Not following the given-new contract in conversations may result in ambiguities and misunderstandings.
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