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| The ease with which a concept can be described. |
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| The height of a wave from its highest to its lowest point. |
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| a writing system in which the characters correspond, approximately, to the phonemes of the language. |
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| Referring to the hypothesis that we access the meaning of a written word by first processing the sound of the word. |
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| the phenomenon whereby listeners are much better able to discriminate between 2 sounds in different phonemic categories than b/w 2 sounds in the same category. |
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| the influence on a given sound by an adjacent sound. This occurs because the motor movements that produce each phoneme are overlapping. |
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| Connectionist model of word recognition |
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| depicts the lexicon as an interactive network of connections among different layers of processing. |
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| the tendency for ppl to choose different alternatives depending on how the alternatives are worded. |
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| the number of times a wave cycles from peak to valley and back in a given time. |
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| an alphabetic writing system in which there is relatively little correspondence b/w spelling and pronunciation |
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| the idea that visual word recognition can be accomplished in either of 2 ways: direct route or assembled route. |
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| severe impairment of the ability to recognize words. |
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| a sentence that initially leads to an incorrect parsing or an incorrect interpretation of its meaning. |
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| words in which the same spelling pattern is associated w/ multiple meanings (bug... insect, or bug... listening device) |
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| immediacy of interpretation |
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| referring to the hypothesis that, as each word in a sentence is received, it is integrated as fully as possible into the developing sentence interpretation. |
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| an utterance that makes a command or otherwise performs some action thru its nonliteral interpretation. ("Do you have the time?") |
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| the idea that we can think only in terms of concepts for which there are words in our language. Thus language is how we think. |
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| referring to the idea that cross-cultural variations in cognition are associated w/ different languages. |
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| in speech perception, the problem of identifying phonemic cues that do not change with context. |
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| a writing system in which the characters correspond to words or morphemes |
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| the phenomenon whereby a percept is based on a combination of sight and sound when the listener hears one sound being produced but simultaneously sees a different sound being produced |
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| the proposal that we perceive speech by relating the sound produced to the articulatory movements or commands that would be needed to produce the sound. |
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| the influence of similar-sounding or similar-looking words on the recognition of a particular word |
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| having more than one meaning. |
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| Phonemic restoration effect |
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| the illusion that a phoneme deleted from a stream of speech is actually present |
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| the idea that language and thought are highly related, even to the point that language differences cause differences among cultures in ways of thinking. |
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| In speech perception, the problem posed by the lack of clear separations between spoken words. |
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| an alphabetic writing system in which there is a relatively close correspondence b/w spelling and pronunciation |
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| the tendency for the most frequent words to be shorter words |
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| Variables that influence word recognition |
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| frequency, neighborhood, context, and word superiority effect |
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