LING/PSYCH 371 LANGUAGE AND THE MIND
 25% of the grade
 Cumulative
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50 multiple-choice questions (2pts each = 100)
Basic Linguistics Concepts and Terms (3 items) o Subfields of linguistics o Competence vs. Performance o Universal grammar vs. Core grammar o Principles and Parameters o Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Speech Perception (6) o Invariance problem o Segmentation problem o Categorical perception (identification task, discrimination tast) o Voice Onset Time o Speech perception research techniques o Bottom-up processing vs. Top-down processing (example o Cohort Model o Factors affecting spoken word recognition
Frequency Effect
Phonological neighborhood effect
Context effect
Familiarity effects
Lexical Organization and Word Access (6) o Semantic memory vs. Episodic memory o Lexical entries (lemma and lexeme) o Word association o Priming effect o The Hierarchical Network Model o The Spreading Activation Model o The autonomous serial search model o The logogen model
Sentence Processing (6) o Structural Ambiguity vs. Lexical Ambiguity o Structural ambiguity: Global ambiguity vs. Local (Temporary) ambiguity o Sentence Processing Models a.
Serial vs. Parallel Model b.
Modular vs. Interactive Model c.
Minimal Commitment Model o Garden-Path Model vs. Constraint-Based Model
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Speech Production (5) o Speech error types (shift, exchange, anticipation, perseveration, deletion, addition, substitution, blend) o Speech units o Patterns (regularities) of speech errors o Levelt and Bock’s speech production model
Language Acquisition (12) o Behaviorism (Empiricism) vs. Nativism (Rationalist) o Theories of language acquisition
Imitation
Learning Theory
Innate Theory o Arguments for innateness (nativism) o Critical Period Hypothesis o Research techniques for language acquisition
speech perception
 high-amplitude sucking paradigm
 head-turning
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EEG
syntactic knowledge
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Intermodal preferential looking paradigm
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Task elicitation
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Utterance elicitation o Native language magnet mode o Categorization strategies: a.
Assimilation (mapping a new piece of information to already existing category) b.
Accommodation (creating a new category in the knowledge base) o Mapping problem in word learning (same as Gavagai problem) o Ostensive Learning o Word learning constraints
Whole-object hypothesis
Taxonimic constraint
Mutual exclusivity Assumption o Over-extension vs. Under-extension o Syntactic Bootstrapping o MLU (Mean Length of Utterance) & Syntactic development (Holophrase, Telegraphic stage) o U-shaped development of morphology
Brain and Language (12) o Lateralization o Localization o Broca’s aphasia vs. Wernicke’s aphasia o Anomia, Conduction Aphasia, Alexia o P600 vs. N400 effect