Chapter 11 revsision

What factors affects the ability to understand words?

What factors affects the ability to understand words? Explain each one.

Answer explanation

Frequency of words: some words are more common and so reaction time to these words are much quicker. Lexical decision task

Speech segmentation: Ability to tell when words ends in speech despite there being no actual pauses.

Pronunciation: People speak in different ways, have accent, speed that differ.

Visual cues: Use of visual cues like lip reading to infer what is being said when there is difficulty in understanding

Context: Use of context to understand the words, than if the words were free floating.

Meaning: Meaning of words, some words have multiple meanings and inferring on the meaning. There is also the frequency of which meanings are used.

What is the following describing?

As people read a sentence their grouping of words into phrases is governed by a number of processing mechanisms called heuristic.

• Garden path Sentence

• Garden path model

• Late-closure

• Situation model

• Temporary ambiguity

What is the following describing?

Sentences that begin by appearing to mean one thing, but then end up meaning something else

• Garden path Sentence

• Garden path model

• Late-closure

• Situation model

• Temporary ambiguity

What is the following describing?

Sentences that begin by appearing to mean one thing, but then end up meaning something else

What is the following describing?

When the initial words are ambiguous, but the meaning is made clear by the end of the sentence

• Garden path Sentence

• Garden path model

• Late-closure

• Situation model

• Temporary ambiguity

What is the following describing?

When the initial words are ambiguous, but the meaning is made clear by the end of the sentence

What are heuristics in the garden path model of parsing?

What are the rules of heuristics based on?

What is the following describing?

Syntax-based principles that states that when a person encounters a new word, the person’s parsing mechanism assumes that this word is part of the current phrase, so each new word is added to the current phrase for as long as possible