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Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics. Comprehension Phonological level sounds Lexical words Syntactic sentences Discourse discourse Production Acquisition. Psycholinguistics.

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Psycholinguistics

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  1. Psycholinguistics Comprehension Phonological level sounds Lexical words Syntactic sentences Discourse discourse Production Acquisition Psycholinguistics Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Chapter 4.

  2. Articulatory Features of Phones Place of Articulation where constriction occurs Manner of Articulation how air obstructed: Voicing plus or minus vocal cord vibrations

  3. Speech Rates 125-180 words per minute 25-30 phonetic segments per second (Liberman, 1970); Yeni-Komshian, Grace H. 1998. Speech perception. In Psycholinguistics, second edition, pp. 107-156. Jean Berko Gleason and Nan Bernstein Ratner, editors. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, p. 110.

  4. Vowel Quadrangle as Function of F1 and F2 Language Files, seventh edition. 1998. Nick Cipollone, Steven Hartman Keiser, Shravan Vasishth, editors. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, p. 70.

  5. Consonant-Vowel Spectrograms Ashcraft, Mark H. 1994. Human Memory and Cognition, second edition. New York: Harper Collins College Publishers, p. 385.

  6. Coarticulation Ashcraft, Mark H. 1994. Human Memory and Cognition, second edition. New York: Harper Collins College Publishers, p. 386.

  7. Allophones of /t/ Tom Burton tried to steal a butter plate. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 aspirated 2 glottalized 3 palatalized 4 elongated 5 unaspirated 6 flapped 7 unreleased

  8. Coarticulation Study 1 Stimuli:12 CV syllables (four fricatives in three vowel contexts: i, u, a; e.g., si, su, sa) Computer excised the vowel portion of each syllable. Procedure:Remaining "consonant" portion played to subjects. Task: Identify the missing vowel. Results:[i], [u] reliably identified; [a] not Conclusion:Fricative portion contains information about vowel Yeni-Komshian, Grace H. and S.D. Soli. 1981. Recognition of vowels from information in fricatives: Perceptual evidence of fricative-vowel coarticulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70: 966-975. Cited (p. 137) in Yeni-Komishian, Grace H. 1998. Speech Perception. In Psycholinguistics, Jean Berko Gleason and Nan Bernstein Ratner, editors, pp. 107-156.

  9. Coarticulation Study 2 -1 Stimuli: C1VC2 syllables with [b]: bVb 9 different vowels: beeb, bib, babe, bob Computer divided syllables in X Y Z X: transition from C1 to V (Y); Z: transition from V to C2; Y central vocalic (vowel) portion Procedure: Subjects heard: 1. XYZ 2. X—Z (— is a silent gap) 3. Y (steady state portion) 4. Y (fixed length steady state portion) 5. XZ Task: Identify the vowel in each test stimulus

  10. Coarticulation Study 2 - 2 Results: Types 2 (X—Z), 1 (XYZ) accurate Types 3, 5 "significantly more errors" Type 4 worst Conclusion: "…formant transitions and vowel duration are more important cues to the identity of vowels than a fixed sample of the steady- state information." (126 b) Jenkins, J.J., W. Strange, T.R. Edman. 1983. Identification of vowels in "vowelless" syllables. Perception & Psychophysics, 34(5): 441-450. Cited (pp. 125-126) in Yeni-Komishian, Grace H. 1998. Speech Perception. In Psycholinguistics, Jean Berko Gleason and Nan Bernstein Ratner, editors, pp. 107-156.

  11. Fodor's Criteria for Modularity 1) domain specific 2) operates on a mandatory basis 3) fast 4) unaffected by feedback (from other modules) See Fodor, Jerry A. 1983. The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Cited (p. 77) in Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, pp. 369-375, 376-381.

  12. Visual Influences on Speech Perception Procedure: Present visual picture of someone saying [ga] Synchronized with the sound [ba] Task: Subject identifies the sound heard Result: Subject "hears" and identifies it as [da] Conclusion:Place of articulation detected by eye Manner of articulation detected by ear MacDonald, J. & H. McGurk. 1978. Visual influences on speech perception processes. Perception & Psychophysics, 24: 253-257. Cited (p. 83) in Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.

  13. Levels of Processing for Aural and Visual Language SPEECH TRACE MODEL WRITING Phonological Word Word Phonetic Phone Letter Auditory Feature Feature Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Chapter 4.

  14. Taylor et al. Study Results(Trend from Grade 1 to Grade 12) Duration of fixations decrease Regressions per 100 words decrease Fixations per 100 words (-Regressions) decrease Number of words per fixation increase Rate (WPM) increase Conclusions based on S.E. Taylor, H. Frackenpohl, & J.L. Pettee. 1960. Grade level norms for the components of the fundamental reading skill. Educational Development Laboratories Research and Information Bulletin No. 3, Educational Development Laboratories. Cited (p. 93) in Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.

  15. Word-Superiority Effect -1 Stimuli: words, non-words, letters Procedure: Show subjects one of these using tachistoscope briefly: word (a word) owrd (a non-word) d or k (a letter) Task: Reply to "Did you see a given letter (e.g., "d") in final position?"

  16. Word-Superiority Effect - 2 Results: More accurate if the letter appeared in a word. Conclusion: The word has an effect on letter recognition. There must be some top- down processing— though bottom-up processing can occur Reicher, G. M. 1969. Perceptual recognition as a function of meaningfulness of stimulus material. Journal of Experimental Psychology 81: 275-280. Cited (p. 93) in Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.

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