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Psycholinguistics & Research Methods – Introduction

Psycholinguistics & Research Methods – Introduction. 922 Sharon Armon-Lotem. Psycholinguistics – how language is done. Processing (of words and sentences) Language acquisition Neurolinguistics. Language processing. Can you read the following paragraph?

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Psycholinguistics & Research Methods – Introduction

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  1. Psycholinguistics & Research Methods – Introduction 922 Sharon Armon-Lotem

  2. Psycholinguistics– how language is done • Processing (of words and sentences) • Language acquisition • Neurolinguistics

  3. Language processing Can you read the following paragraph? (from http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2003/09/14/27471.aspx)

  4. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

  5. And in Hebrew (http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/)

  6. Speech perception: High amplitude sucking (HAS) method (Figure from Eimas et al., 1971)

  7. Head turn method http://psych.rice.edu/mmtbn/language/sPerception/infantHeadturn_h.html • Identification = discrimination and categorization • Discrimination – head turn for different category • Categorization – head turn for same category • Categorical perception: Voice onset time (VOT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USIgSFgzwww (1:56-3;52)

  8. Miller and Nicely 1955 (figure from Clark and Clark (1977)) Identification of CV syllables in the presence of white noise.

  9. Active and Passive Theories – from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USIgSFgzwww (starting on 8:30)

  10. Our lexicon • How do we store words in our mind? • Are sender and sister the same? What about under and unlike?

  11. Priming effect (e.g., Lexical decision, Semantic verification) • A bat is a mammal • A cat is a mammal c. A bat is a bird

  12. Lexical ambiguity a. The rabbi married my sister b. The rabbi married my brother c. The rabbi married my sister and her boyfriend

  13. Syntactic Ambiguities Why is this sentence ambiguous? How do we compute the interpretation? How do we choose which interpretation to assign to this sentence? • The tuna can hit the boat. • הם יורים בשוטרים עם רובים

  14. Garden path sentences • Read sentence (a). How did it feel? a. Since Jay always walks a mile seems like a short distance to him. • Now read it again. Concentrate on your eye movement.

  15. Now do the same for (b). b. The horse raced past the barn fell. • Why did we fall into the same trap again? What does it tell us about trees? • And some Hebrew: c. חולצה מטיילת בואדי

  16. Language acquisition What can we learn from the following examples? a. Ani lo menaketet et hashulxan b. Ha-kosem ilem et ha-arnav

  17. And the following dialogue? Matan: lama at mashtaotaaxshav? Mother: animashkaotaki hi cmea. Matan: Gal lo perax. Peraxmashkim.

  18. Brain and Language (neurolinguistics) a. Q: What happened to make you lose your speech? A: Head, fall. Jesus Christ, me no good, str, str … oh Jesus … stroke

  19. b. Q: What brings you to the hospital? A: Boy. I’m sweating. I’m awful nervous. I can’t mention the tarripoi, a month age, I’ve done a lot better, you know what I mean. I have to run around, trbbin and all that sort of stuff.

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