Production Errors and Speech Perception

These flashcards cover key vocabulary and concepts related to production errors, speech perception, lexical access, and experimental methods studied in linguistics.

Production Errors

Mistakes made in speech or signing, such as slips of the tongue or hand.

Morpheme

The smallest grammatical unit in a language, which can be a word or part of a word.

Metathesis

The transposition of sounds or syllables in a word, often resulting in speech errors.

Malapropism

An often humorous mistake made by substituting a word with a similar-sounding one that has a different meaning.

Signed Production Errors

Systematic errors that occur in signed languages, reflecting the language's structured parameters.

Lexical Access

The process of retrieving word information from memory to understand or produce speech.

Mental Lexicon

A cognitive storage system for words, including their meanings, pronunciations, and syntactic features.

The Cohort Model

A model of word recognition that involves accessing a cohort of possible words based on initial sounds.

TRACE Model

A speech perception model that incorporates competition and cooperation among phoneme and word nodes.

Phoneme Restoration

The cognitive process that allows listeners to fill in missing sounds in speech based on context.

Global Ambiguity

A type of structural ambiguity where an utterance can be interpreted in multiple ways without resolving clues.

Late Closure

A strategy in sentence processing where incoming information is added to the nearest phrase.

Constraint-based Models

Parsing methods that incorporate non-syntactic factors, like context and real-world knowledge, into analysis.

Intonation

The variation in pitch while speaking, which can affect meaning and resolve ambiguities in utterances.

Experimental Methodologies

Research methods used in psycholinguistics, including techniques for measuring brain activity related to language.

EEG (Electroencephalography)

A method of measuring electrical activity in the brain through electrodes placed on the scalp.

fMRI (Functional MRI)

An imaging technique that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

Lexical Decision Tasks

Tasks designed to measure how quickly a person can determine if a string of letters is a word or not.

Spreading Activation

A process in the mental lexicon where activation of one word or concept triggers related words.