Category: Science
Created by: tim.zhaotianqi
Number of Blossarys: 40
A situation in which a word can have more than one meaning • Example: “rock” Context usually enables quick resolution of lexical ambiguity • “I could not move the heavy rock that blocked the ...
Faster responding to high-frequency words than to low-frequency words • Eye-movement studies reveal longer fixation times for low-frequency words • Interpretation: More time needed to access ...
The process of perceiving individual words in a continuous speech signal. • Aided by context and prior knowledge.
• A phoneme in a spoken word in a sentence can be perceived even if it’s obscured by noise. • The “filling in” of the missing phoneme based on the context is an example of top-down ...
A perceptual phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual ...
One or more morphemes combined according to specific rules • Most adults know more than 50,000 words.
Smallest meaningful unit of language • Meaning can be grammatical (e.g., suffix) • About 50,000 to 80,000 in English • Morpheme does not correspond to number of phonemes or syllables in a ...