Production and Perception of Language

These flashcards cover key concepts related to production errors, speech perception, lexical access, and their implications in language processing.

Production Errors

Errors that occur during speech production, often unconsciously.

Morpheme

The smallest grammatical unit in a language.

Lexical Access

The process of retrieving and filtering information about a word from the mental lexicon.

Malapropism

A type of speech error where a word is replaced by a word that sounds similar but has a different meaning.

Phoneme Restoration

The process of filling in missing sounds in speech based on context.

The McGurk Effect

A phenomenon where visual stimuli influence auditory perception of speech sounds.

Syntactic Parsing

The process of analyzing the syntactic structure of an utterance.

Structural Ambiguity

A situation where a sentence can be interpreted in multiple ways due to its structure.

Garden Path Effect

A phenomenon where a listener misinterprets an initially comprehensible sentence.

Cohort Model

A theory of word recognition that proposes the activation of a cohort of potential words based on initial sounds.

TRACE Model

A model of speech perception that incorporates interactive activation across different levels of processing.

Speaker Normalization

Adjusting perception based on known characteristics of the speaker, such as accent or gender.

Categorical Perception

The ability to perceive discrete categories of sounds rather than a continuous spectrum.

Rate Normalization

The perceptual adjustment to determine speech sounds accurately as the rate of speech varies.

Intonation

The variation of pitch in speech that helps convey meaning.

Lexical Bias Effect

The tendency to produce real words rather than nonsense words during sound exchanges in speech.