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What is the term for the moment before meaning is accessed in word recognition?

  • Lexical access
  • Phonological mediation
  • Magic moment (correct)
  • Word superiority effect
  • Which of the following tasks is used to measure the amount of time it takes to decide if a string of letters is a valid word?

  • Semantic categorisation task
  • Morphological decomposition task
  • Naming task
  • Lexical decision task (correct)
  • According to Reicher's 1969 study, what is the effect observed when participants are more accurate in identifying letters in real words compared to non-words?

  • Word superiority effect (correct)
  • Syllabic processing
  • Phonological mediation
  • Morphological decomposition
  • What is the term for the smallest meaningful units that words can be broken into?

    <p>Morphemes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of morpheme changes the meaning of a base word by applying derivations?

    <p>Derivational morpheme</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the process of recognizing and processing the sounds of words while reading?

    <p>Phonological mediation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Prinzmetal's 1986 study, what is the role of syllables in visual processing of words?

    <p>Syllables serve as perceptual grouping units</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the process of recognizing a word as an existing word in the lexicon?

    <p>Word recognition</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary finding of MARSLEN 1994's study?

    <p>Priming effects are significant for base words but not for unrelated words.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main idea behind Taft's 1976 decomposition account?

    <p>Readers first decompose morphologically-complex words into morphemes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary effect of orthographic neighborhood on word recognition?

    <p>High orthographic neighborhood words are rejected faster.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of phonological neighborhood on word recognition?

    <p>High phonological neighborhood words are recognized faster.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between concreteness and imageability?

    <p>Concreteness refers to initial recognition, while imageability refers to the strength of image.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of sentence level context on word processing?

    <p>Semantically congruent sentences decrease reaction times.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of masking screens in the priming paradigm?

    <p>To make the prime subliminal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the definition of stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA)?

    <p>The time between the onset of the prime and the onset of the target.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of orthographic priming on word recognition?

    <p>Reaction times are shorter when the target and prime are orthographically similar.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary effect of phonological priming on word recognition?

    <p>Reaction times are shorter when the target and prime are phonologically similar.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main idea behind the Interactive Activation/Competition Model of letter and word recognition?

    <p>Connections between letter units contribute to the activation of a word unit</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of higher frequency words in the Interactive Activation/Competition Model?

    <p>They are activated faster and reach recognition threshold more quickly</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the limitation of the Interactive Activation/Competition Model in explaining neighbourhood size effects?

    <p>It cannot explain facilitatory effects</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main limitation of the Interactive Activation/Competition Model in terms of semantic effects?

    <p>It can explain visual properties but not semantic effects</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main problem of variability in speech perception?

    <p>Same phonemes sound different in different circumstances</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main problem of segmentation in speech perception?

    <p>No clear breaks between words in spoken phrases</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the strategy to deal with the problem of segmentation in speech perception?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the concept of categorical perception?

    <p>Perceiving speech sounds as distinct phonemes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the main finding of Liberman's (1957) study on categorical perception?

    <p>Participants could clearly distinguish between sounds without ambiguity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the main manipulation in Liberman's (1961) study on categorical perception?

    <p>Varying the voice onset times (VOTs) of phonemes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main finding of the study on phoneme perception with short and long VOTs?

    <p>Phonemes with short VOTs are mostly perceived as B, while those with long VOTs are mostly perceived as P.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the McGurk effect?

    <p>An audiovisual illusion where video and audio inputs are combined to create a new sound.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Foss (1980), what affects phoneme perception reaction times?

    <p>Predictability of the word based on the preceding phrase.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the dual code model?

    <p>A model that explains both top-down and bottom-up processing in phoneme perception.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Foss (1983), what is the primary code used for phoneme identification?

    <p>The pre-lexical/phonetic code.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main finding of Marslen-Wilson (1994) regarding phoneme mediation?

    <p>Phonemes do not need to be identified for word recognition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is phoneme restoration?

    <p>A process where missing phonemes in words are filled by context.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Warren (1970), what is the main finding of the lexical identification task?

    <p>Listeners use semantic and syntactic information beyond individual phonemes to identify words.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main finding of the follow-up study by Warren (1970)?

    <p>Participants used context to aid in identifying missing phonemes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of the Access stage in the Original Cohort Model?

    <p>To analyze the acoustic features and create a cohort of potential words</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between the Uniqueness Point and the Recognition Point?

    <p>The Uniqueness Point is the point where the word becomes uniquely identifiable, while the Recognition Point is the point where the word is empirically identified</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the primary goal of the study by Zwisterlood (1989)?

    <p>To examine the influence of context on word recognition</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of the Integration stage in the Original Cohort Model?

    <p>To integrate the syntactic and semantic properties of the selected word</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main finding of the study by Zwisterlood (1989)?

    <p>Context effects have an impact on the later stages of processing, but not on the early stages</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary difference between the Original Cohort Model and the Revised Cohort Model?

    <p>The Revised Cohort Model gives priority to bottom-up processing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of frequency effects in the Revised Cohort Model?

    <p>High-frequency words have a higher resting level of activation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of the Selection stage in the Original Cohort Model?

    <p>To select the most appropriate word from the cohort</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of frequency on word recognition?

    <p>Higher frequency words are recognised faster</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary stage of processing affected by context effects in word recognition?

    <p>Later stage of processing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the focus of parsing in sentence comprehension?

    <p>Syntactic/structural analysis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the characteristic of a temporarily ambiguous sentence?

    <p>The ambiguity is resolved by syntactic or semantic/pragmatic constraints</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of studying ambiguity in sentence processing?

    <p>To understand what information is used when grammar doesn't lead to a specific analysis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of a garden path sentence?

    <p>It initially leads us towards one analysis, but turns out to be wrong by the end of the sentence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the principle of minimal attachment in the garden path model?

    <p>The parser initially chooses the simplest syntactic structure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the principle of late closure in the garden path model?

    <p>The parser attaches incoming phrases to the previous phrase, preferring the most recent phrase</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the result of Rayner's 1983 study on the garden path model?

    <p>Participants focused more on the second half of the sentence in both conditions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main assumption of the garden path model?

    <p>We first use syntactic information when processing sentences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary finding of SINGER's 1980 study on elaborative inference?

    <p>Judgment times are slower in the elaborative inference conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of NP1-bias and NP2-bias verbs in the context of implicit causality?

    <p>To determine the cause of an action based on the verb used.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary difference between the focusing and integration accounts of implicit causality bias?

    <p>The focusing account expects an early effect, while the integration account expects a late effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary finding of GARNHAM's 1996 study on implicit causality and pronoun resolution?

    <p>Implicit verb bias is used for pronoun resolution at a later stage.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the process of identifying the object or person a pronoun refers to?

    <p>Pronoun resolution</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between elaborative and bridging inferences?

    <p>Elaborative inferences involve making connections between different pieces of information, while bridging inferences involve making connections within a single piece of information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the process of making connections between different pieces of information to form a coherent understanding?

    <p>Elaborative inference</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary role of implicit causality in pronoun resolution?

    <p>To influence attention allocation on the two competing noun phrases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of the MOSES ILLUSION on readers' comprehension?

    <p>It allows readers to automatically activate situation-specific real-world knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of inferences in comprehension?

    <p>To derive additional knowledge from prior knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the process of inferring a connection between objects or events to create coherency?

    <p>Bridging inference</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of the primacy effect in sentence comprehension?

    <p>It leads to better memory for the first-mentioned object.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the process of inferring a causal relationship between two propositions?

    <p>Causal inference</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of the situational model on readers' comprehension?

    <p>It prioritizes the overall meaning of the text.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a proposition in linguistics?

    <p>A linguistic unit that describes an event or state</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the advantage of first mention in sentence comprehension?

    <p>It allows readers to better remember the first-mentioned object.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of reading times on the processing of semantic anomalies?

    <p>Reading times increase when comprehenders encounter semantic anomalies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main finding of Ratcliff's 1978 study?

    <p>That propositions are encoded as a cohesive package in memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the mental representation of the text that prioritizes the overall meaning of the text?

    <p>Situational model</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for internal representations of the external world?

    <p>Situation model</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of context in forming a situation model?

    <p>To help readers form a mental model to understand and memorize texts</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of the recency effect on attention in sentence comprehension?

    <p>It directs attention to more recent propositions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of information is represented in a situation model?

    <p>Four types of information: space, time, causation, and motivation of characters</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of spatial information on the formation of a situation model?

    <p>It helps to form a situation model, including spatial relationships of objects</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main finding of Fletcher's 1990 study?

    <p>That the surface form of a sentence is not represented in the comprehender's memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of test bases in the construction stage of comprehension?

    <p>To be used in conjunction with propositions to construct a situation model</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the process of constructing a situation model?

    <p>Construction stage</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the process of updating the situation model as discourse is processed?

    <p>Dynamic updating</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of the Garden Path Model?

    <p>It is a modular and serial model</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between the Garden Path Model and Constraint-Based Models?

    <p>The Garden Path Model is a modular model, while Constraint-Based Models are not</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main finding of Trueswell's 1994 study?

    <p>The study found that plausibility information affects structural preference</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main critique of Trueswell's 1994 study by Clifton?

    <p>The study's results were due to a null effect</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between the Construction stage and the Integration stage in the Construction-Integration Model?

    <p>The Construction stage uses surface representations, while the Integration stage uses propositional representations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the Construction-Integration Model, what is the purpose of the Integration stage?

    <p>To gather and integrate information about the ideas or events presented in the text</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of mental representation is used in the Construction stage of the Construction-Integration Model?

    <p>Surface representation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the linguistic unit composed of several sentences or a single sentence with multiple clauses or propositions?

    <p>Discourse</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between the Garden Path Model and the Constraint-Based Models in terms of how they process syntactic and non-syntactic information?

    <p>The Garden Path Model processes syntactic information before using non-syntactic information, while the Constraint-Based Models use both simultaneously</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main characteristic of the Constraint-Based Models?

    <p>They are interactive and parallel models</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Word Recognition

    • Word recognition is the process of accessing a word in our mental lexicon.
    • The "magic moment" is the moment before meaning is accessed (recognition without lexical access).
    • There are three ways to measure word recognition:
      • Naming task: amount of time to say a presented word.
      • Lexical decision task: amount of time to decide if a string of letters is a valid word.
      • Semantic categorization: amount of time to sort the meaning of a word into a relevant category.

    Sub-Lexical Unit Processing

    • Reicher (1969) showed that letter recognition is influenced by context (word superiority effect).
    • Syllables are a unit of speech sound, and evidence suggests that syllabic processing happens simultaneously with word processing.
    • Phonological mediation is the process of sounding out words while reading.

    Morpheme Processing

    • Morphemes are the smallest meaningful units of words.
    • There are three types of morphemes:
      • Derivational: change the meaning of a base word by applying derivations.
      • Inflectional: don't change the meaning but change the grammatical properties of a base word.
    • Marslen (1994) showed that exposure to a derivational morpheme facilitates recognition of related base words.

    Visual Word Recognition

    • There are two main types of effects in visual word recognition:
      • Frequency effects: the number of appearances of a word in general language use affects the speed of recognition.
      • Neighborhood effects: the number of other words that can be created by changing one letter or sound of a word affects the speed of recognition.
    • Coltheart (1977) showed that rejecting high-orthographic neighborhood non-words takes longer than low-orthographic neighborhood words.
    • Yates (2004) showed that having many phonologically similar words makes it easier to recognize words by sound.

    Sentence Level Context Effects

    • Sentence level context effects impact word processing, with reaction times shorter when the target word is within a semantically congruent sentence.
    • Making priming paradigm: masking screens presented before or after the prime, often reducing the effect of the prime.

    Interactive Activation/Competition Model

    • McClelland (1981) proposed a connectionist model of letter and word recognition, with visual feature units inputting to letter units, and connections between letter units contributing to the activation of a word unit.
    • Each unit is connected to the one immediately before and after it, with bidirectional connections.
    • Frequency affects the model, with higher frequency words activated faster and reaching recognition threshold more quickly.

    Neighborhood Size Effects

    • The model suggests that connection within units are inhibitory, which explains certain neighborhood effects.
    • However, the model does not explain other facilitatory effects.

    Priming and Sentence Level Context Effects

    • The model focuses on connections within the current word, and cannot explain wider context effects or connections between words.
    • The model only focuses on physical/visual properties of words, and cannot explain semantic effects.

    Variability and Segmentation

    • Two main problems in speech processing:
      • Variability: same phonemes can sound different in different circumstances.
      • Segmentation: the problem of no clear break between words in a spoken phrase.

    Categorical Perception

    • Way that people perceive speech sounds as either one phoneme or another, with no in-between.
    • Liberman (1957) showed that participants could clearly distinguish between sounds without ambiguity.
    • Liberman (1961) showed that listeners tend to perceive a sound as one of the existing phonemes in their language.

    Phoneme Restoration

    • Context effect in auditory word recognition where missing phonemes in words can be filled in by context.
    • Warren (1970) showed that listeners use semantic and syntactic information beyond individual phonemes.
    • Foss (1980) showed that context and predictability play a significant role in phoneme perception.

    Original Cohort Model

    • Marslen (1984) proposed a model where we create a cohort of potential word candidates as we hear speech, which gradually narrows down until only one possibility remains.
    • The model consists of three stages:
      1. Access: initial contact where acoustic features are analyzed, and a cohort of potential words is created.
      2. Selection: lexical selection where one item is chosen from the set of potential words.
      3. Integration: syntactic and semantic properties of the selected word are utilized for comprehension.

    Uniqueness and Recognition Points

    • Uniqueness: the point at which a word becomes uniquely identifiable from its initial sound sequence.
    • Recognition: the point at which a word is empirically identified.
    • Zwisetlood (1989) showed that context effects on word selection have an impact on a later stage of processing.

    Revised Cohort Model

    • Bottom-up priority is considered, indicating that context cannot form the initial cohort and can only influence the integration stage.
    • Frequency effects are also addressed, with high-frequency words having a higher resting level of activation and being recognized more rapidly.

    Parsing and Sentence Processing

    • Parsing: focuses on syntactic/structural analysis within sentence comprehension.
    • Two types of ambiguous sentences:
      • Temporarily ambiguous: occurs at some point in the sentence but is resolved later by syntactic or semantic/pragmatic constraints.
      • Globally ambiguous: even after reading the whole sentence, there are multiple ways to analyze the structure.
    • Garden path sentences: lead us towards one analysis initially, but turn out to be wrong by the end of the sentence.
    • The model explains parsing for both ambiguous and unambiguous sentences, with two principles:
      • Minimal attachment: the parser initially chooses the simplest syntactic structure.
      • Late closure: if minimal attachment doesn't resolve ambiguity, the parser attaches new information to the current clause/phrase.### Sentence Processing Models
    • The Garden Path Model:
      • Modular and serial processing
      • Initial syntactic analysis, followed by reanalysis if necessary
      • Difficulty occurs when initial analysis conflicts with later information
    • Constraint-Based Models:
      • Interactive, parallel, and competitive processing
      • All sources of information (e.g., syntactic, semantic, frequency) interact immediately
      • Difficulty occurs when multiple analyses are equally activated

    Support for Constraint-Based Models

    • Truwell's (1994) eye-tracking study:
      • Demonstrated that plausibility information affects structural preference
      • Results consistent with Constraint-Based Models
    • Clifton's (2003) critique of Truwell's study:
      • Suggested that the absence of a difference between two conditions may be a null effect
      • Conducted a repeat study with different results, opposing the original findings

    Discourse Comprehension

    • Refers to the comprehension of linguistic units composed of multiple sentences or clauses
    • Relevant in both written and spoken language
    • Kintsch's (1988) Construction-Integration Model:
      • Two stages: construction and integration
      • Construction stage: surface representations and text base analysis
      • Integration stage: situation model formation, resolution of contradictions

    Mental Representations

    • Three types: surface, text base, and situation
    • Surface representations: word meanings, sentence structures
    • Text base representations: networks of propositions and inferences
    • Situation representations: networks of inter-related propositions, resolution of contradictions
    • Propositions: linguistic units describing events or states, consisting of a verb and its arguments

    Psychological Reality of Propositions

    • Ratcliff's (1978) sentence/word recall study:
      • Demonstrated that propositions are encoded as a cohesive package
      • Retrieval rates higher when cue is from the same proposition

    Situation Models

    • Van Dijk's (1983) mental model:
      • Refers to internal representations of the external world
      • Comprehenders construct a model as they read or listen to represent the content
      • Models encompass various types of information, including space, time, causation, and motivations
    • Bransford's (1972) study:
      • Demonstrated that context helps readers form a mental model
      • Context should be available at the time of comprehension

    Representation of Spatial Information

    • Bransford's (1972) sentence recognition tasks:
      • Demonstrated that comprehenders form a situation model, including spatial relationships
      • Memory of the sentence's surface form decays rapidly

    Surface Form Representation

    • Fletcher's (1990) passage study:
      • Demonstrated that the surface form of the text is difficult to remember
      • Different types of mental representations are made from the text, with the situational model being maintained fairly well

    Moses Illusion

    • A phenomenon where readers/listeners do not notice anomalies in the text
    • Participants often attempt to answer the expected question instead of pointing out the anomaly
    • Suggests that situation-specific real-world knowledge is automatically activated during comprehension

    Reducing/Eliminating the Moses Illusion

    • Participants take longer to process a word if it appears first in a sentence
    • Primacy effect in focus within sentences: comprehenders better at remembering the first-mentioned object
    • Reaction times for identifying a word in the second proposition of a sentence are lower than for identifying a word in the first proposition

    Inference

    • A derivation of additional knowledge from prior knowledge
    • Involves going beyond what is explicitly represented in the comprehended material
    • Types of inference:
      • Bridging inference: connects objects/events to create coherency
      • Causal inference: infers causal relationships between propositions
      • Elaborative inference: requires linking to real-world knowledge

    Bridging Inference

    • Haviland's (1974) study:
      • Demonstrated that extra time is needed to determine the link between propositions
      • Suggests that bridging inference bridges new information to old information

    Causal Inference

    • Keenan's (1984) study:
      • Demonstrated that extra time is needed to infer causal relationships between propositions
      • Suggests that causal inference involves a different mechanism than bridging inference

    Elaborative Inference

    • Singer's (1980) study:
      • Demonstrated that elaborative inferences are not an automatic process
      • Suggests that elaborative inferences require linking to real-world knowledge

    Pronoun Resolution

    • The process of identifying the object/person a pronoun refers to
    • Sometimes, the connection can be ambiguous, and inferences based on implicit causality are used
    • Implicit causality bias:
      • Influences attention allocation on the two competing noun phrases
      • Expecting an early or late effect on processing

    Garnham's (1996) Study

    • Demonstrated that implicit verb bias influences pronoun resolution at a later stage
    • Suggests that implicit causality bias is used for pronoun resolution during integration, not immediately when the pronoun is encountered

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