5 Questions
What is the minimum sound unit that allows meaning distinction in speech?
Phoneme
Which component of language involves the form and meaning of words?
Lexicon and semantics
What is the stage in speech perception that provides the acoustic features of the signal, including phonemes and distinctive features?
Prelexical processing
What kind of mistake occurs when someone misinterprets 'muscles' as 'mussels'?
Phonemic processing mistake
Which component of language deals with the intentional expression of thoughts and desires?
Pragmatics
Test your knowledge of language processing components including phonology, lexicon, semantics, morphosyntax, and pragmatics through examples of phonemic processing mistakes, segmentation mistakes, lexical ambiguity, syntactical ambiguity, and pragmatic expressions.
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